Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University Library
Thesis Officewww.lib.sfu.ca/help/writing/thesis
Canada
Primary Contact:
Nicole White
Head, Research Commons
778-782-3268
Program Overview
Responsible for accepting formatted theses and dissertations, and depositing them in the Library’s institutional repository, Summit. Summit also acts as a publication platform for University authors (e.g., conference papers, technical reports). Conforms to OAI-PMH.
Year publishing activities began: 2004
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (2)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
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Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: technical/research reports (39); faculty conference papers and proceedings (40); ETDs (563); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (1)faculty-driven and graduate student journals (10); scholarly conferences (2)
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; multimedia/interactive content
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students,
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Publishing platform(s): Drupal
Digital preservation strategy: Archivematica; in-house
Additional services: copy-editing; training; analytics; compiling indexes and/or TOCs; author copyright advisory; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Working toward becoming a Trusted Digital Repository; moving to exclusively digital thesis submission.View All Entries