La Trobe University
La Trobe University Library
Library Business Services Team
2020 CONTACT:Andrew Iacuone, Senior Manager, Library Business Services
Phone: +61394791922
Email: a.iacuone@latrobe.edu.au
Program Overview
The La Trobe eBureau’s mission is to invest in the development of quality, open access resources to support online and blended learning. All La Trobe eBureau textbooks are written by La Trobe authors for La Trobe courses. The aim is to promote the expertise of La Trobe academics and reduce resource costs for students by providing open access textbooks, available anytime, anywhere.
Location: Australia
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 0.8
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 2 | |||
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | ||||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Journals for External Groups | ||||
Monographs | ||||
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Textbooks | 2 | 6 | ||
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.
Highlights
- How to Do Science: Human Physiology (OER)
- Don't cheat yourself: Scenarios to clarify collusion confusion (OER)
- Research and Evidence in Practice (OER)
- Gallipoli, Anzacs and the Great War (OER)
- Caesar’s Triumphs over Gaul and Rome (OER)
- history
- textbooks
Partners
Internal Partners: individual facultyTechnologies & Services
- audio
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- OJS
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- budget preparation
- business model development
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- image services
- ISBN registry
- peer review management
- typesetting
- In-house
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:La Trobe eBureau is a library service that is committed to high quality open access textbook publishing. Planning is focussed on increasing the number of titles available across a range of discipline areas.