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Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

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Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries



Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries provide support for TMU faculty and staff members who wish to create and publish both open, open education and scholarly monographs via Pressbooks. There is also publishing support for open journal publishing via OJS and institutional repository services for the depositing of openly available research outputs.
  • Publishing activities began: 2012
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English; French

Program Organization

  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.2
  • Individual people: 4
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 3
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 3
  • Currently inactive or archived: 5
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 10
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 6

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan (textbook)
  • Principles of Marketing, 1st Canadian Edition (textbook)
  • Introduction to Communication in Nursing (textbook)
  • Physical Examination Techniques: A Nurse’s Guide (textbook)
  • Introduction to Health Assessment for the Nursing Professional (textbook)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Nursing
  • Business
  • Social science
  • Accessibility
  • Math

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
    The institutional repository and OJS are administered within the Research Department.
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • 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)
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Open Educational Resources
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • figshare
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Permafrost
  • In-house

Policies

  • Terms and Conditions: Toronto Metropolitan University RShare License: https://library.torontomu.ca/rshare/terms-and-conditions/
  • TMU Library Open Access Policy: https://library.torontomu.ca/info/policies/library-open-access-policy/

    • Additional Information

    Last Year:
    Focused outreach for institutional repository.
    Future Plans:
    Outreach and training for student journals.