University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Library
Library & University Collections
2020 CONTACT:Angela Laurins, Library Learning Services Manager
Phone:
Email: Angela.Laurins@ed.ac.uk
Program Overview
Edinburgh University Library uses Open Journal Systems to provide a hosting service for Open Access journals published by University of Edinburgh academic staff and student groups. We also provide journal and monograph hosting as a shared service governed by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL).
Location: United Kingdom
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1.5
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; newsletters.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 8 | 8 | ||
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 6 | 6 | ||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Journals for External Groups | 3 | 2 | ||
Monographs | ||||
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Textbooks | ||||
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.
Highlights
- Finance and Society (journal)
- Journal of Lithic Studies (journal)
- Language and Psychoanalysis (journal)
- Concept (journal)
- Forum (journal)
- community education
- linguistics
- archaeology
- anthropology
- political economy
Partners
Internal Partners: individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Open to working with any external partner
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- OJS
- OMP
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- business model development
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- outreach
- training
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- LOCKSS