Transcript UF Smathers Libraries Publishing Services Isabel Silver and Laurie Taylor IMLS Library Publishing Services Workshop May 5, 2011

UF Smathers Libraries
Publishing Services
Isabel Silver and
Laurie Taylor
IMLS Library Publishing
Services Workshop
May 5, 2011
Main Points
• Intro to UF and UF Libraries
• Intro to UF Digital Collections
– The IR@UF
– Policies and Procedures
• Open Access Publishing @ Smathers
Libraries
• Path to OA Journal Publishing
• The UF Open Access Publishing Fund
• Questions/Discussion
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The University of Florida
http://www.ufl.edu/
• Major, public land-grant, research
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university
Member of AAU
One of the largest, with over 50,000
students
2,000 acre campus, 900 buildings
Historic District on the National Register
of Historic Places
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UF Smathers Libraries
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/
• Member of ARL, CRL, Research Libraries
Group, and LYRASIS
• Staff: over 400 FTE staff
• LPS organizational structure: distributed model
– Digital Library Center:
• UF Digital Collections
• IR@UF
– Academic and Scholarly Outreach Office
• Organization: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/orgchart.pdf
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UF Digital Collections (2006)
• Created for preservation (early 1990s.)
– Portal to all digitized material
• Optimized for access via search
engines
• Designed to leverage technology to
support current and future needs
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UF Digital Collections (2)
• Digital collections: 400+
– Digital Library of the Caribbean
– Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
– Florida Digital Newspaper Library
• Pages: 6.5 million +
• Partners: 90+
Current OA Publishing
• Publishing Directly to IR@UF
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Journal of Undergraduate Research
Conference proceedings
Electronic theses & dissertations (ETD)
Research data
Online exhibits
Student association archives
Videos
Current OA Publishing (2)
• UFDC is the online publisher for the
following print works:
• Florida/Caribbean Architect
• Florida Anthropologist
• Backlist titles from the University Press
of Florida (67 titles, full-text)
• Back issues of journals
• Chemical Engineering Education Journal
Policies and Procedures
• Digitization & digital curation follow standards for
preservation and access
• Metadata primary standard is METS/MODS
– Darwin Core extension, PREMIS/DAITSS, EAD, EAC
– Auto-translated to Dublin Core, MARCXML, optimized
HTML for search engines, and JSON–available for
extension
• Digital collections follow web standards for
interoperability, access, and usability
Policies and Procedures (2)
• Deposit: self-submittal with full
support
• Quality control for preservation and
optimal accessibility
Policies and Procedures (3)
• Subject specialists are the primary liaisons for
faculty and researchers.
• Subject specialist coordinate collaboration
across multiple units in the Libraries to support
all processes. Support includes:
– Intellectual Property review
– Copyright evaluation
– Permissions requests and tracking
– Permissions-based model: authors retain all rights
Policies and Procedures (4)
• Support for cultural heritage rights
– Mindful, open, and flexible approach to materials and
projects
– Permissions-based model
– Technology in service of policy
• Support for moral rights
– Attribution
– Integrity (of the whole work)
– Recognition/anonymity (author’s preference)
Policies and Procedures (5)
• Support for privacy rights
– Defined by law
– Additional policies defined by the
institution
– Additional policies applied as appropriate
(IRB approval, informed consent
methods, and documentation required
for oral histories)
Policies and Procedures (6)
• Assessment
• New Services:
–OJS
Move to OA Journal
Publishing
• Why?
– Respond to a demand
– Meet a need
– Motivated to become an active player
Journal Publishing with OJS
• Choice and decision: why OJS?
– Free
– Freedom; local control and selfdetermination
– Infrastructure:
• Local UF DC infrastructure
• Technical background
• Florida Library Center for Automation:
http://fclaweb.fcla.edu/
• Long-term considerations and drive to create results
Journal Publishing w/ OJS (2)
• Added Value through features:
– Structure: greater flexibility  interoperability
– Larger user community  greater service
opportunities
– Availability of adding plug-ins
• (e.g., automating and integrating book review
process)
– Future opportunities
Next Steps
• Staffing
• Funding: grants and identifying
endowments
• Develop MOU templates
• Outreach to faculty and graduate
students
The UF Open Access
Publishing Fund
supports making UF research findings
immediately, freely and globally available
through Open Access publishing.
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For more information, contact:
Isabel Silver
Director, Academic and Scholarly Outreach
[email protected] 352-273-2524
Laurie Taylor
Interim Head, Digital Library Center
[email protected] 352-273-2902
Visit our website: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/
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Questions
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Discussion
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