McGill University

McGill University Library and Archives

Academic Library · Canada

• https://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/scholarly-publishing
• escholarship.library@mcgill.ca

Digital Initiatives

https://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/scholarly-publishing

Jessica Lange, Coordinator, Scholarly Communications
Email: jesssica.lange@mcgill.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
McGill Library and Archives publishes scholarly peer reviewed journals using an open access business model. We achieve this by working closely with our campus community to provide them with publishing services that support their research needs, accommodating multiple levels of scholarship including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. We ensure that journals published with us are disseminated worldwide with appropriate infrastructure and that content is accessible on a global scale.

• Publishing activities began: 1998
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English, French

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 0.5
• Individual people: 2
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Grants; library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• 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): Yes

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