University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library
Content Stewardship and Scholarly CommunicationUnited States
Primary Contact:
Dave S. Ghamandi
Open Publishing Librarian
434-924-3845
Program Overview
The UVa institutional repository, Libra, makes publications, including ETDs, available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the UVa. community. We are actively building an open access journal publishing service.
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 (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): (3) Currently publishing ETDs and datasets, expanding to journals
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: N/A, but we plan on creating one
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018:
Library publications in 2018: technical/research reports (2); conference papers (3); ETDs (714)
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners:
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; DOI assignment
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Efforts are underway to establish the library as an open access journal publisher.View All Entries