Library Publishing Directory

Queen's University

Queen's University Library

Academic Library · Canada

Digital Initiatives and Open Scholarship

https://library.queensu.ca/help-services/scholarly-publishing

Mark Swartz, Scholarly Publishing Librarian
Phone: 613-533-6000 Ext 78510
Email: mark.swartz@queensu.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Scholarly Publishing Services supports Queen’s research and dissemination priorities through open journal hosting, promotion and creation of OER, as well as showcasing faculty and student research in QSpace, Queen’s Research Repository.
  • Publishing activities began: 2002
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English, French, Spanish

Program Organization

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Educational resources
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals
  • Monographs


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 17
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 14
  • Campus-based student-created: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 12
  • Currently inactive or archived: 6
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 6

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Surveillance and Society (journal)
  • Encounters in the Theory and History of Education Monograph Series (monograph series)
  • Encounters in the Theory and History of Education (journal)
  • Canadian Planning and Policy (journal)
  • Pocus Journal (journal)

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    General communication and collaboration.
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • Islandora
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • OMP
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Indexing services (e.g. assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP
  • CLOCKSS
  • LOCKSS
  • Scholars Portal

Policies