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Library Publishing Directory

2019

University of Toronto

University of Toronto Libraries

Information Technology Services

  • https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/
  • tspace@library.utoronto.ca
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):
  • 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 students
University Press Partners: University of Toronto Press

Best publications to refer to our program: Ontario Council of University Libraries, Canadian Science Publishing

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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