University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library
Content StewardshipUnited States
Primary Contact:
Dave S. Ghamandi
Open Publishing Librarian
434-924-3845
Program Overview
The UVa institutional repository, Libra, makes publications available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the UVa. community. Efforts are underway to expand Library publishing activities beyond the institutional repository model to include journals and other scholarly outputs.
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3);paraprofessional staff (1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (75); grants (25)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2017:
Library publications in 2017: monographs (2); technical/research reports (15); conference papers (3); ETDs (821)
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
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Publishing platform(s): Hydra/Fedora; WordPress; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: AP Trust
Additional services: analytics; cataloging; metadata; dataset management; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Efforts are underway to expand Library publishing services to UVa-hosted journals and emerging modes of faculty scholarship.View All Entries