Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)
2020 CONTACT:Karen Meijer-Kline, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 604-599-2978
Email: karen.meijer-kline@kpu.ca
Program Overview
Open Publishing Suite (OPUS) collectively refers to a suite of services and tools offered by the Library. OPUS assists faculty and students in monograph and journal publishing or making their work available online. We also offer support to KPU instructors to create or adapt open educational resources.
Location: Canada
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
- Undergraduates: 1
- Library Operating Budget: 70%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 20%
- Grants: 10%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; Open Educational Resources.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 1 | 2 | ||
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 3 | 3 | ||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Journals for External Groups | ||||
Monographs | ||||
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | 3 | 5 | ||
Textbooks | 4 | 5 | ||
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: Open Educational Resources (4)
Highlights
- Mise-en-Scene (journal)
- "Making Selfies/Making Self: Digital Subjectivities in the Selfie" (conference publication)
- Research Methods in Psychology (open textbook)
- Logan Creek Decolonization Project Journal (journal)
- sociology
- education
- criminology
- horticulture
- psychology
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Open to working with any external partner
Technologies & Services
- audio
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- Islandora
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- copyediting
- digitization
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- outreach
- print-on-demand
- training
- PKP Preservation Network
- KPU’s KORA is part of the BC provincial repository: Arca
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:In the coming year we are planning to add support for LaTeX, as well as more student assistant support, library staff support, and expanded graphic design support.
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