2020 Library Publishing Directory

Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University Libraries

Digital Initiatives

2020 CONTACT:
Geoff Brown, Digital Scholarship Librarian
Phone: 902-494-2826
Email: Geoffrey.Brown@Dal.ca

Program Overview

The Dalhousie Libraries’ Digital Initiatives Group works towards solutions for advancing a broad range of digital initiatives, including repository services, digitization, data, digital preservation, and digital collection development.

We collaborate with researchers, other units, and groups throughout the University and with local, national, and international partners.

Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1.25
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; Publications based on archival/special collection material; digital exhibits.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal1315
Campus-based Student-driven Journals4
Databases
ETDs
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings
Journals for External Groups 2
Monographs
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks1
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

  • Library Publishing Activities: Publications based on archival/special collection material; digital exhibits

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • The Dalhousie Review (journal)
  • Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (journal)
  • Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS) (journal)
  • Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (journal)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS
  • Pressbooks
  • Omeka
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Archivematica
  • LOCKSS
  • PKP Preservation Network
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