University of British Columbia (UBC)

University of British Columbia Library

Academic Library · Canada

• https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/publishing-services/

Digital Programs and Services

https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/publishing-services/

Bronwen Sprout, Head, Digital Programs and Services

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
UBC Library’s Open Publishing Program is an open access journal and text service to help UBC faculty, researchers, instructors, students, and staff develop open access publications for scholarship and instruction.

• Publishing activities began: 2007
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across several campuses
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
• Individual people: 1
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Open educational resources

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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