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2022 Library Publishing Directory

University of Alberta

University of Alberta Library

Library Publishing and Digital Production Services

  • https://library.ualberta.ca/publishing
  • library.publishing@ualberta.ca
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Leah Vanderjagt, Acting Head, Library Publishing Services & Head, Digital Repository and Research Data Services
Email: leahv@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
  • Languages published: English, French, Ukrainian, Spanish
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage comments:
  • Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program advisory/editorial board: No
  • Peer reviewed journals: 95%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • 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; 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; journals, inactive back-issues.

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty 5 5
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) 15 15
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 930 930
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 16 16
Journals, campus-based student-created 24 24
Journals, contracted by external groups 25 25
Journals, inactive back issues 13 13
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/research reports
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

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

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: We partner with Canadian open access journals

Best publications to refer to our program: Open access journals affiliated with a Canadian scholarly, learned or professional association, or Canadian post-secondary institution. Openly-licensed textbook projects, where the primary creator or adaptor must be a faculty or staff member at the University of Alberta or partner institution.

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?
  • University press partner: University of Alberta Press
Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • locally developed software
  • locally developed software

Additional services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • 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
  • Scholars Portal
Service vendors: CrossRef; Library and Archives Canada; Internet Archive; PKP; Open Academia
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