Library Publishing Directory

University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town Libraries

Academic Library · South Africa

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

https://lib.uct.ac.za/openaccess

Jill Claassen, section manager: scholarly communication and research
Email: jill.claassen@uct.ac.za

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Aligned to the University of Cape Town's Open Access Policy, the library publishing service is driven by social justice principles to advance African scholarship through diamond open access by sharing and disseminating to the continent first, and then the world.
  • Publishing activities began: 2015
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; French; Sesotho

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 7
  • Individual people: 4
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 5
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 3
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Constitutional Law for Students (textbook)
  • Marketing to South African Consumers (textbook)
  • Journal of Construction Business and Management (journal)
  • Journal of African Real Estate Research (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • African scholarship

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
    In the scholarly communication and publishing unit there are now two Presses; one is the library publishing service, which is called UCT Libraries Press and the University Press, UCT Press.
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Diamond open access journals; monographs; textbooks.
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Open Monograph Press (OMP)
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • audio/video streaming
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • print-on-demand
  • training

Policies

  • Addendum to UCT Authors’ Publication Agreements: https://uct.ac.za/media/9455
  • Open Access Policy: https://uct.ac.za/media/9453

    • Additional Information

    Last Year:
    UCT Libraries are now calling their library publishing service UCT Libraries Press. Further, UCT Libraries oversees a continental platform, that is called the African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS): https://apos.uct.ac.za/, which previously was referred to as the continental platform. The library is working with the Association of African Universities to upskill African library directors to include library publishing as one of their services.
    Future Plans:
    The APOS may be hosted by one of the Research Educational Networks on the continent. Currently, it is hosted and maintained by the University of Cape Town's IT department.
    Other Information:
    The African Platform for Open Scholarship is part of the Directory of Open Access Books as a trusted platform network: https://www.doabooks.org/en/article/jstor-african-platform-for-open-scholarship-apos-fulcrum-and-thoth-open-metadata-join-doab-trusted-platform-network