University of Sydney
University of Sydney Library
Publishing and Data Servicessup.info@sydney.edu.au
http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/
Australia
Primary Contact:
Susan Murray
Manager, Scholarly Publishing and Sydney University Press
612 90366442
Program Overview
Publishing and Data Services at the University of Sydney Library support the many ways that academics want to communicate the results of their research. We offer publishing platforms that support open journals and provide open access to digital materials, both text and multimedia. Sydney Open Journals is a fully featured journal publishing platform, offering editorial workflows from submission and selection, through peer review and feedback, to publication and promotion. The Sydney eScholarship Repository can store your technical reports, datasets, conference papers, as well as audio, video and other multimedia material. All repository materials are searchable via Google Scholar, maximising access to your content. Other solutions, including digitisation, data visualisation and research data management are also available.
Year publishing activities began: 2001
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (2)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2017: journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1);monographs (12)
Library publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (5); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (6); faculty conference papers and proceedings (1); ETDs (204); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (158)
Number of open access titles: journals (11)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations
Disciplinary specialties: ethics in medicine; transport and logistics; sociology and social policy; Australian literature; literature and literary studies
Top publications:
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 80
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Royal Society of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Australasian Humour Studies Network, Oceania Comparative and International Education Society
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; OJS
Digital preservation strategy: Portico; in-house
Additional services: print-on-demand; training; analytics; digitization; image services; data visualization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Better support of journals, including DOI, marketing.We are exploring different ways we can support scholarly communication, from traditional university press to open publishing activities. View All Entries