Dublin Business School

Academic Information and Resource Centre

2020 CONTACT:
Jane Buggle, Deputy Librarian
Phone: (353) 1-417-0667
Email: Jane.Buggle@Dbs.ie

Program Overview

DBS Library Press is a centre for expertise in library publishing in Ireland, supporting academic discourse and pedagogy through the publication of peer-reviewed, open access journals and monographs.

Publishing Activities Began: 2014
Location: Ireland
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 2
Paraprofessional staff: 1

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: journals, campus-based faculty-created; monographs.

	2019	Open Access
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal	1	1
Campus-based Student-driven Journals
Databases
ETDs
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings		5
Journals for External Groups
Monographs	1	1
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses		250

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.

Highlights

Top Publications:

DBS Business Review (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

information and library management
psychology
business
social science
computer science

Partners

Internal Partners: individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students

Openess to Partners: Open to working with any external partner
Best publications to refer to our program: Journals, monographs, and proceedings

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
images
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

DSpace
OJS
WordPress

Additional Services:

author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
budget preparation
copyediting
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
peer review management
print-on-demand
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

LOCKSS

Service Vendors: Lulu

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We intend to publish more monographs.

Highlighted Publication

DBS Business Review

DBS Business Review is an open access, annual academic journal published by Dublin Business School. The journal is a cross-institutional, international endeavour which features peer-reviewed articles from a range of academic contributors including undergraduate and postgraduate students alongside faculty, submitted from across the sector.