About the Publisher
Why are university libraries in different countries digital publishers?
In the twenty-first century, the rapid development of information and communication technologies and the global movement for open knowledge have changed the publishing industry, among other things. Types of publishing houses and publishing services: https://www.oabooks-toolkit.org
Library Publishing at USUST specializes in publishing open access publications based on Creative Commons (CC) licenses: electronic scientific journals, monographs, textbooks, and collections of scientific conference proceedings.
Digital library publishing contributes to increasing the value of university science and education, developing opportunities for members of the academic community to share discoveries and ideas, preserving and making available research results and unique historical documents of USUST.
The main publishing resources of the Library are open access resources and include: the CRUST Repository, 2 peer-reviewed scientific journals, annual reports of scientific conferences, e-books (textbooks, manuals, monographs).
The main publishing services are aimed at supporting the production, distribution and preservation of academic and scientific works; as well as advising the university community on the creation of scientific works, their open access publication, copyright, metadata, analytics, providing publishing experience to the editors of other university publications in the transition to the OJS, OCS and OMP platforms.
The publishing activity of the scientific library focuses on maximizing the impact of USUST publications within the international scientific, educational and public sphere and promoting the free exchange of knowledge.
In digital publishing of books (textbooks, manuals, monographs), the Digital Publishing House in the Library cooperates with the editorial and publishing sector of the University Web Management Center.
Library services: Providing and activating DOI; advising authors on choosing a Creative Commons (CC) licence and placing a CC licence in the book; creating original metadata, editing the first two and last pages of the publication, as well as the list of references; setting up book navigation; publishing the publication in PDF format on the website of the Digital Publishing of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies and the CRUST Repository website; integrating digital publications into OERSI (Open Educational Resources Search Index), a global search index of open educational resources of higher education institutions; advocating for open educational resources (OER) and promoting CC licences.
The services of the editorial and publishing sector of the University Web Management Center include: providing ISBN for books; technical editing of the manuscript body.
Our University:
- in SPARC Europe https://sparceurope.org
- in the global Coalition of Library Publishers: Library Publishing Directory https://librarypublishing.org/lp-directory
- IFLA, Global Library Publishing Map (Library Publishing Interest Group) https://lib-pub.org/
Within the framework of the library publishing house are created:
- journal Science and Transport Progress;
- journal Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research;
- journal of scientific reports of the conference "University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development. Conference Proceedings";
- conference materials "University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development";
- E-books (in Ukrainian);
- Multimedia: Open Educational Resources (a series of video lectures); Open Knowledge in Ukrainian Universities: Open Educational Resources (a series of webinars for higher education communities)
