Memorial University of Newfoundland
Queen Elizabeth II Library
Digital Archives Initiative
Patrick Gamsby, Scholarly Communications LibrarianPhone: 709-864-2124
Email: pgamsby@mun.ca
Program Overview
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
- Location: Canada
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Peer reviewed journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 4
- Undergraduates: 3
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library materials budget: 20%
- Library operating budget: 80%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.Highlights
Disciplinary specialties:
- Newfoundland and Labrador
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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 that provides support for publishing?
Work with a university press?
Administer a university press?
Technologies & Services
Media formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & platforms:
- CONTENTdm
- Dataverse
- EPrints
- OJS
Additional services:
- audio/video streaming
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- outreach
- training
Digital preservation strategy:
- Archive-It
- Archivematica
- CLOCKSS
- COPPUL
- LOCKSS
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We are considering a migration from EPrints to DSpace for our repository software.
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