Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

The Office of Library and Knowledge Management

Academic Library · Malaysia

UMK Press

http://umkbookstores.com

Amirul Firdaus Zilah, Deputy Chief Librarian
Email: amirul@umk.edu.my

Program Overview

  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Some
  • Publishing Languages: English, Malay

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 14
  • Individual people: 14
  • Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing, Grants, Sales revenue

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Educational resources
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 4
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 36
  • Peer-reviewed: 36

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Creative technology
  • Agrotechnology
  • Earth science
  • Heritage

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Monoghraph on Entrepreneurship
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • multimedia
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • cataloging
  • compiling indexes and/or TOCs
  • digitization
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • print-on-demand
  • typesetting

Policies