Library Publishing Directory

University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Scholarly Communications

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/

Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly Communications
Email: c.lyon@austin.utexas.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
University of Texas Libraries open access publishing efforts are designed to share online the products of the University's research and scholarship, to preserve these works for future generations, to promote new models of scholarly communication, and to help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education.
  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4
  • Individual people: 8
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Charitable contributions, Endowment income, Library materials budget, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Open educational resources (textbooks/course modules)
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 4
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 3
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 2
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (taxa accounts)
  • Population Research Center Research and Policy Brief Series (grey literature)
  • Ars Inveniendi Analytica (journal)
  • Texas Education Review (journal)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • outreach
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house

Policies

Accessibility policy, Author rights/copyright policy, Open access policy

Additional Information

Last Year:
We recently expanded our support for OER creation. We currently sponsor the Open Education Fellowship program, which supports accepted faculty members as they either author or adopt OER for their coursework. This fellowship offers its participants both a stipend and professional development opportunities.