Institute of Art, Design + Technology

IADT Library

Academic Library · Ireland

IADT Library

https://library.iadt.ie/

Jane Buggle, Institute Librarian
Phone: +00 353 1 239 4636
Email: jane.buggle@iadt.ie

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
IADT Library publishes electronic theses and dissertations, and the research and creative work of faculty. IADT Library plans to expand the range of open access publishing activities to showcase the intellectual and creative output of the institution and to support its ambitious research agenda.
  • Publishing activities began: 2020
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • 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): 1
  • Individual people: 2
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Multimedia
  • Newsletters
  • Posters


Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Art, design and film
  • Computing
  • Psychology
  • Humanities
  • Business

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate 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: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • figshare

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISBN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3

Policies

  • Institutional Repository Policy: https://iadt.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IADT-Library-Institutional-Repository-Policy-2023-V1.pdf

  • Adopted Policies:
    Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    IADT Library has recently installed Figshare as the IADT institutional repository, Illustro. It is currently moving content from Research@THEA and building and developing collections and archives, for example, the Goff Diaries historical archive and the National Script Library.
    Future Plans:
    IADT Library will launch a new diamond open access, cross-institutional, peer reviewed academic journal in 2024. The journal will be run through Open Journal Systems (OJS) and published on Illustro.