University of Fribourg

Cantonal and University Library of Fribourg

Academic Library · Switzerland

• openaccess@unifr.ch

diamond@UNIFR

Email: openaccess@unifr.ch

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Publish academic publications diamond open access following best practices for journals, reports, and books.

• Publishing activities began: 2021
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  We propose support for OJS installation shared by several universities and are beginng to publish original academic works on our repository.
  
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English, French, German

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 0.4
• Individual people: 5
• Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing; Library materials budget; Library operating budget; Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty
• 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): Yes

Technologies & Services

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