Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University Library

Academic Library · Canada

Digital Publishing

https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dp

Kate Shuttleworth, Digital Publishing Librarian
Email: digital-publishing@sfu.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Provide software, training, and expertise for online open access journals, textbooks, and other educational projects that have a significant SFU faculty connection or to support SFU-based teaching and research initiatives. Responsible for depositing formatted theses in the Library’s research repository, Summit.
  • Publishing activities began: 2004
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; French

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across campus
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
  • Individual people: 7
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing, Library materials budget, Library operating budget, Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Open educational resources (textbooks/course modules)


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 19
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 6
  • Campus-based student-created: 8
  • Contracted by external groups: 5
  • Peer-reviewed: 18
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Educational Review (journal)
  • Discourse and Writing (journal)
  • Northern Review (journal)
  • International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (journal)
  • Jove's Bodega (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • English
  • Education
  • Health Sciences

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Islandora
  • locally developed software
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Open Monograph Press (OMP)
  • Pressbooks

Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • Archive-It
  • CLOCKSS
  • COPPUL
  • LOCKSS
Highlighted Publication

The St. Petersburg Diaries (1843-1848) of Anna McNeill Whistler

This annotated critical edition of The St. Petersburg Diaries (1843–1848) is an unprecedented resource for scholars in the fields of Russian and European history, transportation and railway history, art history, and women’s history.

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