Library Publishing Directory

Maynooth University

John Paul II Library

Academic Library · Ireland

Digital Programmes and Information Systems

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library

Fiona Morley, Head of Digital Programmes and Information Systems
Email: Fiona.Morley@mu.ie

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To support and encourage the dissemination of academic research via open access on appropriate publishing platforms.
  • Publishing activities began: 2018
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across campus
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
  • Individual people: 4
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Journals


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 4
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 3
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 3

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • The Open Journal of Astrophysics (journal)
  • Journal of Military History and Defence Studies (journal)
  • Dancecult - Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (journal)
  • Journal of Mediation and Applied Conflict Analysis (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Astrophysics
  • History
  • Social/cultural
  • Music
  • Communications

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    Promotion of publications
  • 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:
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • EPrints
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • contract/license preparation
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • outreach
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Other (please specify)
  • Digital preservation services under discussion

Policies

  • Maynooth University Open Access Policy: https://nuim.libguides.com/openaccess/OAMandate

    • Adopted Policies:
    MU Library is represented on the Library Association of Ireland's Library Publishing Group and the Irish Open Access Publishers Group, and we draw on the experience of members of both groups. Irish Open Access Publishers https://sites.google.com/view/irish-open-access-publishers/home?authuser=0&pli=1 LAI Library Publishing Group https://www.libraryassociation.ie/library-publishing-group/ We are also guided by the work of the National Open Research Forum (NORF) https://norf.ie/ Maynooth University has also developed a Rights Retention Statement.

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    Continued support for all publications. The Library has produced a guide to our publishing services available at https://nuim.libguides.com/OpenPublishing We are planning to move all OJS journals to an externally hosted rather than locally hosted OJS platform. The Open Journal of Astrophysics is in the process of transferring to Maynooth University's crossref identifier for Maynooth Academic Publishing.
    Future Plans:
    We would like to further support campus colleagues in developing open access journal publications and investigate publication of open access monographs. The latter has been identified as a task under the Maynooth University Open Scholarship Strategy 2022-2025. We have also promoted the Irish Journal of Management https://sciendo.com/journal/IJM which is an open journal not directly supported by us but has Maynooth University editorial board membership.