Publishing

Digital Research & Publishing provides a variety of e-publishing services including e-journal publishing and editorial management, conference management web hosting, digitization of print back issues, and software hosting, updates, and enhancement. These services are available through the University of Iowa’s institutional repository, Iowa Research Online.

Journal Services

Our journal-hosting service is part of a larger initiative at the Libraries to help advance new forms of scholarly publishing. The journals are accessible through Iowa Research Online (http://ir.uiowa.edu), a dynamic archive of the research produced by faculty, researchers, and students, from published articles in peer-reviewed journals to presentations, theses, dissertations, and unpublished papers.

Publishing options:

  • electronic-only: publish articles as indexed and searchable PDFs through a custom-designed website
  • print and electronic: submit ready-to-publish articles to a traditional printer to offer readers the option of print or electronic access

Our services include:

  • software demonstrations
  • training your editorial team to use the EdiKit software
  • creating a customized web site for your journal, hosted by Iowa Research Online
  • migrating back issues into your journal site (including scanning and metadata creation)
  • helping you draft author copyright guidelines
  • offering long-term digital preservation
  • managing software upgrades and customer support

Types of journals:

  • scholarly journals published by University of Iowa
  • literary journals published by University of Iowa
  • society publications with University of Iowa editors (all editors do not need to be at Iowa)

This publishing platform is well suited for open access titles or titles that become open access after an embargo of no more than 24 months.

Editorial management software

Several locally edited journals and working paper series are currently using EdiKit, our editorial management software, to manage the peer review process and publish issues electronically. Users can:

  • accept online submissions and assign them to editors
  • simplify management of the peer-review process by tracking reviewer activity, automatically emailing appropriate reminders, and allowing for anonymous correspondence between reviewer and author
  • easily communicate with authors and track manuscript revisions
  • manage access to the journal through subscription controls and moving wall thresholds (to release older issues as open access)
  • publish articles as fully indexed and searchable PDFs
  • all editorial activities—including copy-editing, proofreading, and page composition—are the responsibility of the participating academic unit or publishing program

Other benefits:

  • great visibility; very high Google rankings and included in Google Scholar
  • stable URLs that facilitate linking to content
  • publish audio, video and high-resolution images
  • supplementary materials can accompany articles
  • professionally designed site, meeting accessibility requirements
  • offer e-mail alerts and RSS feeds to readers
  • title will be preserved for the long term
  • generate usage statistics counting downloads of articles

Conference management

Our conference management platform can accommodate one-time-only and repeat scholarly events, large multi-track events and single session symposia, new content as well as content from past events. This service is part of a larger one at the Libraries to help advance scholarly publishing. All proceedings managed on this platform are accessible through Iowa Research Online, a dynamic archive of the research produced by faculty, researchers, and students, from published articles in peer-reviewed journals to presentations, theses, dissertations, and unpublished papers.

Our services include:

  • software demonstrations and training
  • creating a customized web site for your event, hosted by Iowa Research Online
  • migrating conference proceedings into your site
  • helping you draft copyright guidelines
  • offering long-term digital preservation
  • managing software upgrades and customer support

Types of conferences supported:

  • academic conferences sponsored by a University of Iowa department, research unit, or center
  • professional and scholarly society conferences organized by University of Iowa faculty and staff

Using our software, you can:

  • accept online submissions and assign them to event managers
  • manage and publish schedules, including multi-track events
  • simplify management of the peer-review process by tracking reviewer activity, automatically emailing appropriate reminders, and allowing for anonymous correspondence between reviewer and submitter
  • publish an iCal-compatible program schedule
  • export content to submit to printer for bound programs
  • publish conference papers, proceedings, and abstracts as fully indexed and searchable PDFs
  • include non-print media such as images, audio, and video
  • offer e-mail alerts, RSS feeds, and calendar synching to participants/attendees
  • allow presenters/participants to upload their own supplementary material before/during/after the conference
  • generate usage reports

Repository Services

Iowa Research Online exists to increase the impact of scholarly and creative work at The University of Iowa.  It helps to publicize content by making it easily accessible and findable and by providing stable URLs. IRO offers the ability to view publications by department, academic discipline or author.

Basically, anything that appears on your CV for which you retain copyright or have permission to post publicly may be added to IRO. This includes:

  • Published articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • Post-print article
  • Presentations (PowerPoint, text of talk, recording of talk)
  • Unpublished papers and reports
    • Technical reports
    • Translation of a primary source
    • Annual reports
  • Newsletters
  • Audio and video files
  • Supplemental materials

Library staff can assist you in your endeavors to determine copyright restrictions on existing publications and can also assist you in retaining your copyright for future publications.

For more information about Iowa Research Online, see our guide.

How to Contribute:

Click the Submit Research link on the page for your department’s publication or visit the Submit Your Research page, or let your subject specialist know if you are interested in adding content to IRO and they will assist you.

Library staff will check copyright permissions and add your content (contact lib-ir@uiowa.edu).

Getting Started

To schedule a consultation, contact  your subject  liaison or Digital Research & Publishing at lib-ir@uiowa.edu.