Digital Research & Publishing provides a variety of publishing services for various materials, including:
- E-journals (e.g. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Medieval Feminist Forum, and Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies)
- E-books (e.g. University of Iowa Faculty Books)
- Reference databases (e.g. The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa and Iowa Prairie Plants)
- Grey literature and institutional records (e.g. Health Policy Research)
- Out of print books (e.g. Singular Lives and http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/search/collection/uidb)
- Unpublished manuscripts (e.g. Civil War Diaries and Cookbooks)
- Image and media collections (e.g. Iowa City Foreign Relation Council Presentations, Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes)
- Research collections (e.g. Madurese Storyteller Videos, Presidential Campaign Videos, and New Media & Politics)
- Digital editions with rich media (e.g. Paper Through Time and Joseph F. Culver Civil War Letters)
Future publishing will include:
- Research datasets
- Maps and geospatial data
- Open educational resources
The materials are often available through Iowa Research Online or through Iowa Digital Library.
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
Our services include:
- training your editorial team to use the editorial management software
- creating a customized web site for your journal
- migrating back issues into your journal site (including scanning and metadata creation)
- helping you draft author copyright guidelines
- offering long-term digital preservation
All editorial activities—including copy-editing, proofreading, and page composition—are the responsibility of the participating academic unit or publishing program.
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.
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.
Getting Started
To schedule a consultation, contact your subject liaison or Digital Research & Publishing at lib-ir@uiowa.edu.
