2022 Library Publishing Directory

University of Washington

University of Washington Libraries

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

Gordon J. Aamot, Director, Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Phone: 206-616-6431
Email: aamot@uw.edu

Program Overview

We support the creators of intellectual content in sharing their work with the world.

  • Publishing activities began: 1998
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: services distributed across several campuses
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 2 - Early
  • Stage comments:
  • Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program advisory/editorial board: No
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1.5
  • Graduate students: 0.25
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • Library operating budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; digital humanities projects; multimedia projects.

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets 114 114
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) 25 25
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1000 1000
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 2 2
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back issues 1 1
Monographs 18 18
Newsletters 1 1
Technical/research reports
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses 30 30
Other publishing activities:
digital humanities projects (20) multimedia projects (7)

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Library-administered university press publications:

For journals, include titles that published at least one article in the last twelve months. For other publication types, report items that were published or added to your repository for the first time within the last twelve months.


  2021
Monographs 53

Highlights

Top publications:
  • ETDs
  • Journal of Indo-Pacific Archeology (journal)
  • Slovene Studies (journal)
  • Advances in Classification Research Online (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
  • Southeast Asia
  • fisheries
  • information studies
  • anthropology

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?
  • University press partner: University of Washington Press
Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • data
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
Softwares & platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • DSpace
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Manifold
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
Additional services:
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • metadata
Digital preservation strategy:
  • Archivematica
  • CLOCKSS
  • HathiTrust
  • LOCKSS
  • Portico
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