Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia Queensland

IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre

Information Resources Department

Mark Lamont, Director, Information & Resources
Phone: (07) 36326811
Email: mark.lamont@ipweaq.com.au

Program Overview

The IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre is an essential resource for those involved in the public works sector. It combines traditional engineering research with contemporary technologies to provide collections of podcasts, articles, and images appropriate to a modern dedicated information repository.

Publishing Activities Began: 2016
Location: Australia
Languages published: English
Organization: organization (e.g. non-profit association, library consortia) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
Stage Comments: At present we are engaging in discussions with Engineering and other Public Sector journals to act as a middle entity for the papers published by us to by considered for further publication in peer reviewed academic periodicals.
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 40%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 7
Paraprofessional staff: 2
Graduate students: 2
Undergraduates: 2

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Materials Budget: 20%
Library Operating Budget: 40%
Sales Revenue: 40%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; databases; journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, contracted by external groups; technical/research reports.

	2020	Open Access	Paid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty	146	44	102
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases	3		3
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created	9	9
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups	1	1
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports	17	17
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top Publications:

Queensland Urban Drainage Manual (book)
Street Planning and Design Manual (book)
Construction and Maintenance of Infrastructure Supervisor's Handbook (book)
Engineering for Public Works Journal (journal)
Lower Order Roads Design Guidelines (book)

Disciplinary Specialties:

transport engineering
flood and stormwater management
asset design and management
street planning and design
native title and aboriginal cultural heritage

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner

Best publications to refer to our program: Publications that address issues across the entire public works sector with a particular emphasis on engineering for that sector.

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

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

Softwares & Platforms:

DSpace
WordPress

Additional Services:

applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
audio/video streaming
author advisory – other
copyediting
digitization
graphic design (print or web)
open URL support
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Digital preservation services under discussion
In-house

Service Vendors: Max Gecko Design; Productiv Media; Digital 8; IPWEAQ Professional Development; McCullogh Robertson; JPL Media

Additional Information

Other Information:
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions: The IPWEAQ Knowledge Centre has seen a doubling in usage over the last 12 months. While it's primary role is to be the first site of publishing for papers, articles and proceeding from various conferences, the intention going forward is to also act as an intermediary space, intersecting with academic engineering journals and advocating on behalf of our contributors for wider publication opportunities within those journals. It has also proven to be a site of knowledge generation with users accessing and sharing information while working from home during the COVID 19 isolation period.

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