University of Toronto
University of Toronto Libraries
Information Technology Services
2019 CONTACT:Mariya Maistrovskaya, Institutional Repositories Librarian
Phone: 416-946-0113
Email: tspace@library.utoronto.ca
Program Overview
The University of Toronto Libraries maintains both OJS and TSpace, the university’s research repository with the aim to preserve and disseminate the university’s scholarly contributions. We actively support scholarly communication needs through open access and alternative forms of publication.
Publishing Activities Began: 2003
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across several campuses
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 3 - Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 5%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across several campuses
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 3 - Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 5%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 3.75
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students: 1
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 21
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 10
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 33
- ETDs: 1190
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 18
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 14
Hybrid Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 9
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Education
- Health sciences
Top Publications:
- Socialist Register
- Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
- Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
- Clinical & Investigative Medicine
- Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsExternal Partners: Ontario Council of University Libraries, Canadian Science Publishing
University Press Partners: University of Toronto Press
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Islandora
- OJS
- locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Archive-It
- In-house
- PKP Preservation Network
- Scholars Portal
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- business model development
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- dataset management
- digitization
- graphic design (print or web)
- metadata
- outreach
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:- DOI minting service for hosted OJS journals - Training and workshops for journal editors - Local preservation pipeline for library hosted content
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