University of New Brunswick

Harriet Irving Library

Centre for Digital Scholarship

James MacKenzie, Director of Advanced Digital Research and Scholarship
Phone: 5062592774
Email: jmackenz@unb.ca

Program Overview

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
Location: Canada
Languages published: English; French
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
Stage comments: Journal activities are long-running and well established. Monograph publishing is a relatively new endeavour.
Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program advisory/editorial board: No
Peer reviewed journals: 90%

Staffing (in full-time equivalents):

Professional staff: 0.5
Paraprofessional staff: 2
Graduate students: 1
Undergraduates: 1

Funding sources for publishing activities:

Chargebacks: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

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 studies

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:

audio
data
images
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & platforms:

DSpace
Dataverse
Islandora
OJS
OMP
locally developed software

Additional services:

analytics
dataset management
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
hosting of supplemental content
metadata
training
typesetting

Digital preservation strategy:

Amazon Glacier
Archive-It
In-house

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