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.
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
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: campus-based faculty-driven journals; campus-based student-driven journals; ETDs; faculty conference papers and proceedings; journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups; student conference papers and proceedings; technical/research reports; textbooks.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 15 | 15 | ||
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 9 | 9 | ||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 994 | 21655 | ||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | 5 | 5 | ||
| Journals for External Groups | 22 | 20 | 2 | |
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | 2 | 2 | ||
| 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
- 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)
- education
- library and information studies
- cultural studies
- Canadian legal studies
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsUniversity 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
- audio
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- Dataverse
- Fedora
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- locally developed software
- Omeka
- 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
- Amazon Glacier
- Archive-It
- CLOCKSS
- COPPUL
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- LOCKSS
- PKP Preservation Network
- Portico