Oxford Brookes University

Academic Library · United Kingdom

Scholarly Communications Team, Learning Resources



Program Overview

  • Publishing activities began: 2015
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
  • Individual people: 5
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 1
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • RADAR: institutional repository of Oxford Brookes (repository)
  • International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring (journal)
  • Ignition Press poetry pamphlet series (pamphlets)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Technology, design and engineering
  • Health and life sciences
  • Business
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Coaching and mentoring

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
    We do not other than by offering professional advice.
  • 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

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • locally developed software

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • In-house