Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University Library
Research Servicesresearchonline@ecu.edu.au
ro.ecu.edu.au
Australia
Primary Contact:
Julia Gross
Senior Librarian, Research Services
+61-8-6304-3698
Program Overview
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (3)
Funding sources (%): library materials budget (10); library operating budget (90)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (5); student-driven journals (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (3); ETDs (97); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (39)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; concept maps/modeling maps/visualizations
Disciplinary specialties: education; business; social and behavioral sciences; medicine and health sciences; arts and humanities
Top publications: Australian Journal of Teacher Education (journal); Landscapes (journal); eCulture (journal); Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (journal); Research Journalism (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registration; DOI assignment/ allocation of identifiers; author copyright advisory; digitization
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Increasing numbers of journals published; investigating ebook publication.View All Entries