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University of Sussex

University of Sussex Library

Academic Library · United Kingdom

Open Press at the University of Sussex (OPUS)

https://openpress.sussex.ac.uk

Sam Nesbit
Email: sfn20@sussex.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Open Press at the University of Sussex (OPUS) is a small Library-based diamond open access publisher providing a service for Sussex researchers. Our focus so far has been on open educational resources, primarily textbooks and toolkits, published under Creative Commons licenses and hosted on the PressBooks platform, but future plans include supporting the publication of scholarly monographs and other research outputs. We aim to provide a personal service tailored to our authors’ needs.
  • Publishing activities began: 2022
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
    Pilot year was 2022
  • 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: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 2
  • Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Expansive digital publications
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Open educational resources


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 5
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 5
  • Currently inactive or archived: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Introduction to Biological Psychology (textbook)
  • Develop your English with the UN SDGs (textbook)

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
    we don't (yet!)
  • 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:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
  • Ubiquity platforms
Additional Services:
  • Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Developmental and/or substantive editing
  • DOI distribution
  • cataloging
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training

Policies

Additional Information

Last Year:
Moving from pilot year(s) to a fuller service; 1xFTE appointed.