University College Cork

Boole Library

Academic Library · Ireland

• https://cora.ucc.ie/
• cora@ucc.ie

Research Services

https://cora.ucc.ie/

Donna Ó Doibhlin, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Email: donna.odoibhlin@ucc.ie

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To provide free open access to University College Cork's scholarly and scientific research publications and theses.

• Publishing activities began: 2005
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• 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): 3.5
• Individual people: 4
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  The Library is responsible for Cork University Press
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Our publishing activities are only for members of University College Cork
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

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