University of Victoria
University of Victoria Libraries
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Canada
Primary Contact:
Inba Kehoe
Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communication Librarian
250-472-5017
press@uvic.ca
Program Overview
The University of Victoria Libraries supports scholarly publishing activities through a variety of activities, providing technology, expertise and promotional support for researchers and students seeking to make their research widely accessible via open access. The Library’s current publishing activities include publishing and hosting several open access journals (faculty, students, association/society, and college journals) on the Open Journals Systems software platform, and hosting and disseminating UVic research and publications (e.g., theses, major projects, technical reports, working papers, posters, reports, books) through our institutional repository. The Library also offers publishing support to faculty for the creation of open access books and textbooks, largely funded via external and internal grants.
Year publishing activities began: 2004
Organization: services are distributed across campus
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (2); paraprofessional staff (3)
Funding sources (%): grants (60); other (40)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): 4
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: no
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018:
Library publications in 2018: campus-based student-driven journals (2); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (4); monographs (6); textbooks (5); technical/research reports (12); student conference papers and proceedings (28); ETDs (365); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (4); faculty article publications; video and audio files (interviews); masters projects; presentations
Number of open access titles: campus-based faculty-driven journals (6); campusbased student-driven journals (20); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (6); monographs (5)
Number of paid titles: monographs (2)
Number of hybrid titles: monographs (1)
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations
Disciplinary specialties: community based research; theatre; childhood studies; politics; humanities
Top publications: Foundations for the Future: The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria (monograph); Complexities, Capacities, Communities: Changing Development Narratives in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development (monograph); Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidencebased Approach (monograph); Strengthening Community University Research Partnerships (monograph); Knowing Home Book 1 (monograph)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 95
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: campus departments or programs
External partners: Victoria Writers’ Society; Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies; Canadian Association for Young Children; Archaeological Society of Canada; Société d’Analyse de la Topique Romanesque; SATIR Global Network; UNICEF-ECD
Publishing platform(s): CONTENTdm; DSpace; Samvera (formerly Hydra); OJS; WordPress; Pressbooks
Digital preservation strategy: Archive-It; Archivematica; COPPUL; PKP PLN LOCKSS
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); print-on-demand; copyediting; marketing; outreach; training; analytics; metadata; compiling indexes and/or TOCs; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registry; ISBN registry; applying for Cataloging in Publication Data; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: We are planning to take on more open textbook creations over the next couple of years.We have two imprints for our monograph publications: University of Victoria and University of Victoria Libraries. View All Entries