Library Publishing Directory

University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa Library / Bibliothèque de l'Université d'Ottawa

Academic Library · Canada

University of Ottawa Library

https://www.uottawa.ca/library/scholarly-communication/uottawa-initiatives/open-journal-hosting

Leigh-Ann Butler, Scholarly Communication Librarian
Email: cssc@uottawa.ca

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
uOttawa Library recognizes the importance of supporting scholarly communication initiatives and increasing the visibility of academic research. We offer journal services using Open Journal Systems to increase access to journals produced by the uOttawa community and to encourage the creation of new ones
  • Publishing activities began: 2010
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: One priority among many
  • 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): 1
  • Individual people: 1
  • Funding sources: Library materials budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 9
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 7
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 9
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Medicine
  • Health sciences and nursing
  • Criminology
  • Language
  • Governance

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
    Collaborate with those leading OER work regarding deposits to institutional repository
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    Communicate regularly about publishing best practices and support them with navigating open access landscape; library provides funding for OA to one entity
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • outreach
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • CLOCKSS
  • LOCKSS

Policies