Memorial University of Newfoundland

Queen Elizabeth II Library

Academic Library · Canada

Digital Archives Initiative

Patrick Gamsby, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 709-864-2124
Email: pgamsby@mun.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To disseminate the intellectual output of scholars at Memorial University of Newfoundland, as well as to exhibit and preserve born-digital and digitized collections.

• Publishing activities began: 2008
• 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 library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
• Individual people: 4
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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

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): No

Technologies & Services

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