2020 Library Publishing Directory

University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town Libraries

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

2020 CONTACT:
Jill Claassen, Section Manager: Scholarly Communication and Research
Phone: 00270216501263
Email: jill.claassen@uct.ac.za

Program Overview

To make African scholarship openly accessible so that Africans can contribute to and participate in creating knowledge for Africa. Driven by social justice imperatives, African scholarship then moves from the periphery of the knowledge economy to the epicentre.

Publishing Activities Began: 2015
Location: South Africa
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 40%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 3
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; monographs; technical/research reports; Open Educational Resources; MOOCs; Policy Briefs.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal55
Campus-based Student-driven Journals
Databases
ETDs1950219502
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings104104
Journals for External Groups
Monographs4545
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings1212
Technical/Research Reports22502250
Textbooks22
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

  • Library Publishing Activities: Policy Briefs (94)

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • medicine
  • gender
  • chemistry
  • engineering
  • social science

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs


Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: open access scholarship

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Islandora
  • OJS
  • OMP
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • LOCKSS
Service Vendors: CrossRef; National Library of South Africa; ISSN; Handle.net

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Library publishing at the University of Cape Town has expanded. To grow the service nationally and on the African continent, it is envisaged that a continental publishing platform will be developed by 2020. By doing this, African scholarship will grow and be accessible to an international audience. The continental publishing platform will cater for the need of technical support in Africa.
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