University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh University Library

Academic Library · United Kingdom

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Edinburgh Diamond

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/edinburgh-diamond

Rebecca Wojturska, Open Access Publishing Officer
Email: rebecca.wojturska@ed.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Edinburgh Diamond, situated within Edinburgh University Library, offers free publishing services to support diamond open access books and journals created by University of Edinburgh academics , staff, and students. We also provide book and journal hosting as a shared service governed by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL).

• Publishing activities began: 2009
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
• Individual people: 2
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Databases
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Open educational resources

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  Edinburgh University Press (EUP) and Edinburgh Diamond are completely separate entities run from the same parent organisation – The University of Edinburgh. EUP is a long-standing traditional publisher of the arts, humanities, and social sciences, whereas Edinburgh Diamond is library-led and offers free publishing services to staff and students of the University of Edinburgh who wish to publish Diamond Open Access books. A member of EUP sits on the Edinburgh Diamond board.
• 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: External partners: journals on the subject of library and information studies, open access, or Scotland. SCURL partners: any type of publication programme or content.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Accessibility Statement for Edinburgh Diamond Website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/edinburgh-diamond/accessibility-statement-for-journal-hosting-site

Copyright Notice: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/about/policies#CopyrightNotice

Authorship: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/publication-ethics

Conflict of Interest: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/publication-ethics

Publication Ethics: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/publication-ethics

Open Access Policy: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/about/policies#openAccessPolicy

Instructions to Reviewers: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/publication-ethics

Digital Preservation Policy: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/digital-preservation-policy

Privacy and Consent Policy: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/publication-ethics

Corrections and Retractions: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/publication-ethics

Adopted Policies:
Committee on Publication Ethics; NASIG Model Digital Preservation Policy.

Additional Information

Last Year:
Edinburgh Diamond now refers to itself as a publishing service instead of a hosting service, as this more accurately reflects our input on the content we publish and host.

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Future Plans:
We are looking into offering print-on-demand for our titles, as well as the feasibility of offering copyediting and typesetting services.

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Other Information:
We are committed to promoting diamond open access publishing as a viable alternate publishing route.