Munster Technological University
MTU Library
Digital Scholarship Services
Sinéad Hanrahan, Digital Scholarship Services LibrarianPhone: +353 021-4326243
Email: sword@mtu.ie
Program Overview
To disseminate the scholarly work of Munster Technological University (MTU) as widely as possible while also ensuring its long-term preservation.
- Publishing activities began: 2019
- Location: Ireland
- Languages published: English; Irish
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 2 - Early
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Peer reviewed journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library operating budget: 80%
- Grants: 20%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 200 | |||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | 2 | |||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 10 | |||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 1 | |||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 1 | |||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back issues | ||||
| Monographs | 2 | |||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | ||||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses |
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
Top publications:
- Irish Business Journal (journal)
- International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
- science
- engineering
- business
- art
- music
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)
Technologies & Services
Media formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
Additional services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- metadata
Digital preservation strategy:
Service vendors: DataCite - Digital preservation services under discussion