2022 Library Publishing Directory

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Queen Elizabeth II Library

Digital Archives Initiative

Patrick Gamsby, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 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%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • 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 programs

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)

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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