Coventry University

Coventry University Library

Academic Library · United Kingdom

Coventry Open Press

https://libguides.coventry.ac.uk/rsp/coventryopenpress

John Atkinson
Email: john.atkinson@coventry.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Coventry Open Press has been established (2023) to embrace the opportunities of open access scholarly publishing, based in, and supported by, the Research and Scholarly Publications Team in Coventry University’s Library.
  • Publishing activities began: 2023
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1

Publishing Activities

  • Journals
  • Monographs


Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate 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: Open to working with any external partner
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Open Monograph Press (OMP)

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Other (please specify)
  • Preservica

Policies