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 (textbooks/course modules)
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 3
Campus-based faculty-created: 2
Contracted by external groups: 1
Peer-reviewed: 3
Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
Currently inactive or archived: 5

Monograph/Book Publishing:

Monographs published: 10
Required fee to enable Open Access: 0

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

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

Author rights/copyright policy, Open access policy

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.