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

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 19
Campus-based faculty-created: 6
Campus-based student-created: 8
Contracted by external groups: 5
Peer-reviewed: 18

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

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
Referrals for projects that better fit with the other entity (i.e. are not open access).
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): Yes

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.