University of Alberta
University of Alberta Libraries
Digital InitiativesCanada
Primary Contact:
Sonya Betz (until March 2016)
Acting Digital Repository Services Librarian
780-492-1718
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 2016:
Library publications in 2016: campus-based faculty driven journals (23); campus-based student driven journals (8); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1)
Number of open access titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of paid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of hybrid titles: journals (); monographs ()
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; Hydra
Digital preservation strategy: Archive-It; Archivematica; CLOCKSS; COPPUL; HathiTrust; LOCKSS; Portico; Hydra; 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: We are advancing data publishing services via a Dataverse instance we plan to connect to OJS; we are implementing DOI registration and CrossRef to EZID; migrating IR and digital collections to Hydra DAMSView All Entries