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 (textbooks/course modules)


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 5
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
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

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

Author rights/copyright policy; Open access policy

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