Technological University Dublin

Academic Library · Ireland

TU Dublin Library Research Services

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Aisling Coyne, Open Scholarship Librarian
Email: aisling.coyne@tudublin.ie

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To disseminate the intellectual output of the university as open access material.
  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • 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): 2
  • Individual people: 2
  • Funding sources: Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 8
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 7
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 8
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
  • Currently inactive or archived: 8
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (journal)
  • Irish Journal of Academic Practice (journal)
  • Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (conference)
  • Level 3 (journal)
  • Techné Logos and the (Neg) Anthropocene: the First Annual Conference of the European Culture and Technology Laboratory (book)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Religious tourism and pilgrimage
  • Food, drink, and society
  • Tour guiding
  • Academic practice
  • Franco-Irish studies

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)

Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • dataset management
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • CLOCKSS

Policies

Open access policy

Additional Information

Last Year:
Focus on early publishing journals, started a Community of Practice for Editors, focus on indexing and design upgrades.
Future Plans:
Journal resurrections, new journals.