Sustainable Publishing on a Shoestring Budget

Budgets continue to shrink, but the demand for services continues to increase. The EDIS website (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu) is a comprehensive, single-source repository of all current UF/IFAS numbered peer-reviewed publications. UF/IFAS academic departments develop and maintain a collection of publications available for universal free distribution on the World Wide Web and through the Florida Cooperative Extension Service County Offices and Research and Education Centers statewide. Each year, visitors to the EDIS website access one of over 7,000 publication titles more than 24 million times. A streamlined publication process, universal Web access, and print as needed services not only reduce the cost but also expand the impact of UF/IFAS publications, which are reviewed every three years. Discover the basics for using metadata in a digital publishing workflow, building effective partnerships with university libraries for archival purposes, and more. Plus, learn how we do it all from a hayloft!