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2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia Library

Digital Initiatives

Bronwen Sprout, Head, Digital Programs and Services
Phone: 604-827-3953
Email: bronwen.sprout@ubc.ca

Program Overview

Our goal is to create sustainable, world-class programs and processes that promote digital scholarship, make UBC research and digital collections openly available to the world, and ensure the long-term preservation of UBC’s digital collections.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2007
  • Location: Canada
  • Organization: services distributed across several campuses
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 80%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1
  • Graduate students: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; 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; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty 49
Conference papers and proceedings, student 1
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1496
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 12 2
Journals, campus-based student-created 6
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs 3
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports 156
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 7

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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:
  • UBC Theses and Dissertations
  • SEEDS (Social Ecological Economic Development Studies) Student Reports (report)
  • Vancouver Institute Lectures Series (audio/visual)
  • FROGBEAR (From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions) (audio/visual; text)
  • BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (audio/visual)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • engineering
  • mathematics
  • medicine
  • forestry
  • sustainability

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

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 that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • DSpace
  • Dataverse
  • OJS
  • Pressbooks

Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Archive-It
  • Archivematica
  • COPPUL
  • LOCKSS
  • PKP Preservation Network

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