McMaster University

McMaster University Library

Academic Library · Canada

• https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/
• scom@mcmaster.ca

Scholarly Communication Unit

https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/

Gabriela Mircea, Digital Repository Librarian
Email: scom@mcmaster.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Our primary task is to facilitate journal publication for faculty and students at McMaster University, but the nature of scholarly publishing entails supporting scholars well beyond our campus as well. We welcome the participation of scholars from around the world in the journals we host.

• Publishing activities began: 2006
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  We also run a publishing service for student journals at https://journals.mcmaster.ca/
  
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 0.5
• Individual people: 2
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Journals

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• 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): No

Technologies & Services

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