University of Toronto
University of Toronto Libraries
Information Technology Services
2020 CONTACT:Mariya Maistrovskaya, Digital Publishing Librarian
Phone: 416-946-0113
Email: tspace@library.utoronto.ca
Program Overview
The University of Toronto Libraries supports faculty and student journal publishing on OJS as well as 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.
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across several campuses
Stage (1-3): 3 - 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
- Graduate students: 0.5
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: campus-based faculty-driven journals; campus-based student-driven journals; ETDs; faculty conference papers and proceedings; monographs; technical/research reports; OA versions of externally produced faculty publications; OA versions of non-faculty publications under contract with a local publisher.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 23 | 16 | 0 | 9 |
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 9 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 2145 | 22490 | ||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | 16 | 136 | ||
| Journals for External Groups | ||||
| Monographs | 3 | 226 | ||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | 5 | 99 | ||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Other/Additional Publishing Activities:
- Library Publishing Activities: OA versions of articles published elsewhere (1709); graduate research projects (66); book chapters (15); policy reports (11)
Highlights
- Socialist Register (journal)
- Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal (journal)
- Clinical & Investigative Medicine (journal)
- Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (journal)
- U of T theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- social sciences
- humanities
- health sciences
- education
- law
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsUniversity Press Partners: University of Toronto Press
Openess to Partners: Open to working with any external partner
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- Islandora
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- locally developed software
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- business model development
- cataloging
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- outreach
- training
- mediated deposit into IR; OER development grants and support
- Archive-It
- In-house
- PKP Preservation Network
- Scholars Portal
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Support for DOAJ inclusion for hosted journals; support for OER production on campus
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