2020 Library Publishing Directory

University of Alberta

University of Alberta Libraries

Library Publishing and Digital Production Services

2020 CONTACT:
Sonya Betz, Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services
Phone: 1-780-492-1718
Email: sonya.betz@ualberta.ca

Program Overview

Our publishing activities seek to make the scholarship of researchers more open and discoverable. We believe that open publishing initiatives have the potential to change the scholarly communication landscape, and model sustainable business practices that benefit both researchers and the public.

Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: Canada
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 98%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 3
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1
  • Graduate students: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; technical/research reports.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal1515
Campus-based Student-driven Journals99
Databases
ETDs99421655
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings55
Journals for External Groups 22202
Monographs
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks22
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Library-Administered University Press Publications:

For journals, include titles that published at least one article in the last twelve months. For other publication types, report items that were published or added to your repository for the first time within the last twelve months.


  • Monographs: 24

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (journal)
  • Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (journal)
  • Aboriginal Policy Studies (journal)
  • Imaginations: Revue d'Études Interculturelles de l'Image / Journal of Cross Cultural Image Studies (journal)
  • Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • education
  • library and information studies
  • cultural studies
  • Canadian legal studies

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
University Press Partners: University of Alberta Press

Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: Canadian open access journals

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • Fedora
  • OJS
  • Pressbooks
  • locally developed software
  • Omeka
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Archive-It
  • CLOCKSS
  • COPPUL
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
  • LOCKSS
  • PKP Preservation Network
  • Portico
Service Vendors: CrossRef, Library and Archives Canada; Internet Archive; PKP; Open Academia
Highlighted Publication

Blue Jay

Blue Jay is a longstanding naturalist publication that allows both scientists and amateurs to share their research findings and observations of the natural history of Saskatchewan and the Prairie Provinces. The University of Alberta and Nature Saskatchewan have been working together since 2018 to transition Blue Jay to a fully open access model, and are currently digitizing and uploading over 60 years of back issues of this historic publication to make them freely available worldwide.

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