University of Alberta
University of Alberta Libraries
Digital InitiativesCanada
Primary Contact:
Leah Vanderjagt
Digital Repository Services Librarian
780-492-3851
Program Overview
The University of alberta Libraries extends hosting and publishing support to members of the University of Alberta community who wish to publish in OA formats.
Year publishing activities began: 2007
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1); paraprofessional staff (0.3); graduate students (0.2);
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (22); campus-based student-driven journals (8); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1); textbooks (2); technical/research reports (2447); faculty conference papers and proceedings (391); ETDs (4404); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (30); Research data files are managed and disseminated in a Dataverse instance.
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Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: library and information studies; education; sociology; pharmaceutical sciences; environmental studies
Top publications: Canadian Journal of Sociology (journal); International Journal of Qualitative Methods (journal); Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (journal); Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (journal); Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 75
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Public Knowledge Project; research teams/projects (e.g. Oil Sands Research and Information Network); local non-profit organizations (e.g. Edmonton Social Planning Council)
Publishing platform(s): Fedora; OJS; locally developed software; Dataverse
Digital preservation strategy: Archive-It; Archivematica; CLOCKSS; COPPUL; HathiTrust; LOCKSS; Portico; in-house
Additional services: training notification of A&I sources; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; dataset management; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: In the near term we are developing a community journal hosting program where we host journals outside of the UofA within Alberta who do not have an academic 'home', and we are advancing data publishing services via a Dataverse instance we plan to connect to OJS.View All Entries