University of British Columbia (UBC)

University of British Columbia Library

Academic Library · Canada

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 (textbooks/course modules)

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 20
Campus-based faculty-created: 18
Campus-based student-created: 2
Peer-reviewed: 20
Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
Currently inactive or archived: 13

Open Educational Resources Publishing:

Open Educational Resources: 7
Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 1

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
text
video

Software & Platforms:

CONTENTdm
Dataverse
DSpace
Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Pressbooks
WordPress

Additional Services:

author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
DOI distribution
audio/video streaming
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers

Digital Preservation Strategy:

PKP Open Preservation Network
Keepers Registry
Archive-It
Archivematica
CLOCKSS
COPPUL
In-house
LOCKSS