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
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

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

Additional Information

Other information:
UW Libraries Mission, Vision, Values (general statement): https://www.lib.washington.edu/about/intro/mvv UW Press Strategic Plan: https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/washington-press-wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/01172904/UW-Press-Strategic-Plan-2019-2021-FINAL.pdf UW Press blogpost about Mellon-funded diversity fellowship program: https://uwpressblog.com/2019/01/23/1205000-mellon-grant-to-expand-the-university-press-diversity-fellowship-program/ UW Libraries position statement on equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism: https://www.lib.washington.edu/about/edi

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