University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick Libraries

Academic Library · Canada

Centre for Digital Scholarship

https://lib.unb.ca/cds/publishing-services

James MacKenzie, Associate Dean of Libraries, Advanced Digital Research and Scholarship
Phone: 506-259-2774
Email: jmackenz@unb.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) has been providing digital publication services for regional, national, and international academic partners for over 20 years. Our clients range from journals with decades of print publication to new “born-digital” publications. The CDS offers a wide range of services for current and prospective scholarly publications and can help editorial staff to develop a digital publication that meets their needs. Our services include creation of new digital publications, hosting digital versions of established print publications, large-scale back-run digitization projects, and a state-of-the-art online peer review and management system.
  • Publishing activities began: 1998
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English; French

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2.5
  • Individual people: 3
  • Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Open educational resources


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 15
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Contracted by external groups: 11
  • Peer-reviewed: 12
  • Currently inactive or archived: 4

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Acadiensis (journal)
  • Studies in Canadian Literature (journal)
  • Journal of New Brunswick Studies (journal)
  • International Hydrographic Review (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Atlantic Canadian history
  • Canadian literature
  • Media and culture study

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Open Monograph Press (OMP)

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • peer review management
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Archive-It
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house

Policies

  • UNB Open Access Policy: https://lib.unb.ca/oa-policy