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La Trobe University

La Trobe University Library

Academic Library · Australia

La Trobe eBureau

https://library.latrobe.edu.au/ebureau

Steven Chang, Coordinator Open Education and Scholarship
Email: S.Chang@latrobe.edu.au

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The La Trobe eBureau is one of Australia’s leading open access publishers. Our mission is to create high-quality resources for online and blended subjects, at zero cost to the student. Our published titles have been adopted by academic institutions around the world, granting our authors international recognition.
  • Publishing activities began: 2017
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; Tetum

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3.2
  • Individual people: 4
  • Funding sources: Charitable contributions, Library operating budget, Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals
  • Open educational resources


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 2
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 1
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 4
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 4

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Research and Evidence in Practice (digital textbook)
  • How to Do Science: A Guide to Researching Human Physiology (digital textbook)
  • Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy Theory and Problems (digital textbook)
  • Democracy in Difference: Debating Key Terms of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Identity (digital textbook)
  • Don't Cheat Yourself: Scenarios to Clarify Collusion Confusion (digital textbook)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • History
  • Social science
  • Health
  • Biochemistry

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Individual faculty, 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: Open to working with any external partner
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: La Trobe University academics or authors working with LTU academics, for texts to be used in teaching La Trobe subjects.
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • figshare
  • locally developed software
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Developmental and/or substantive editing
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • marketing
  • outreach
  • peer review management
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • In-house

Policies