University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
General Library Systemhttp://www.library.wisc.edu/parallelpress/; http://www.library.wisc.edu/digital-library-services/uwdcc/; https://www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian/publications/
United States
Primary Contact:
Carrie Nelson
Directory of Scholarly Communication
608-263-8924
Program Overview
The Digital Collections Center was created to provide quality digital resources from academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at-large. Parallel Press promotes the Wisconsin Idea of making the research of the university available to the world at-large and engages in the research and teaching efforts of the university. It publishes chapbooks and books that feature the work of regional poets and authors. These publications are the result of collaborations with the UW campus community and represent an ongoing commitment by the Libraries to scholarly communication as a contribution to the Wisconsin Idea and in support of the outreach mission of the university. The Gender & Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office publishes three periodicals, plus an online database videography on women, bibliographies, and occasional books.
Year publishing activities began: 1999
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1); paraprofessional staff (1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (70); non-library campus budget (10); endowment income (5); charitable contributions/Friends of the Library organizations (5); sales revenue (5); other (5)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): mixed
Open access focus (1–5): 4
Advisory/editorial board: N
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018: 3 journals with recent articles: Feminist Periodicals, Feminist Collections, New Books
Library publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (3); campus-based student-driven journals (1); print theses and dissertations; reformatted works
Number of open access titles: journals (1)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations
Disciplinary specialties: University of Wisconsin; State of Wisconsin; ecology and natural Resources; decorative arts and material culture; teaching
Top publications: WI Land Survey Records; Icelandic Online; Aldo Leopold Collection; Decorative Arts Library; New Books
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed:
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; Fedora; OJS; Wordpress; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: CLOCKSS; DPN; HathiTrust; LOCKSS; in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); copy-editing; marketing; outreach; cataloging; metadata; ISSN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; dataset management; peer review management; budget preparation; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization; image services; data visualization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Plans to identify resources being managed independently by campus departments or groups that should be more broadly published and determining the appropriate model(s) to provide that support. Increasing collaboration with other institutions. Exploring collaborations with university press.View All Entries