Library Publishing Directory

University College Cork

Boole Library

Academic Library · Ireland

Library Research Services

https://cora.ucc.ie/home

Donna Ó Doibhlin, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: n/a
Email: cora@ucc.ie

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To provide free open access to University College Cork's scholarly and scientific research publications and theses.
  • Publishing activities began: 2005
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English, Irish, German

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3.5
  • Individual people: 4
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 4
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 3

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Writing and using learning outcomes: A practical guide (book)
  • Redefining military memorials and commemoration and how they have changed since the 19th century with a focus on Anglo-American practice (doctoral thesis)
  • Team-teaching for inclusive learning: Purposes, practices and perceptions of a team-teaching initiative in Irish post-primary schools (doctoral thesis)
  • Public policies and work integration social enterprises: the challenges of institutionalism in a neoliberal era. Nonprofit Policy Forum (journal)
  • ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (programme and book of abstracts)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Ireland - multidisciplinary aspects of
  • Pedagogy
  • Computing
  • Microbiology
  • History

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • open URL support
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • CLOCKSS
  • LOCKSS

Policies

Author rights/copyright policy; Open access policy