University of Victoria
University of Victoria Libraries
Copyright & Scholarly Communication Office
2019 CONTACT:Inba Kehoe, Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Phone: 250-472-5017
Email: 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.
Publishing Activities Began: 2004
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across several campuses
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across several campuses
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 3
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: 90%
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: 10%
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 6
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 20
- Monographs: 2
- Textbooks: 2
- Technical/Research Reports: 4
- ETDs: 1029
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 7
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 6
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 20
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 6
- Monographs: 5
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Law
- Technical Writing
- Performance Education and Theatre
- Community Based Research
Top Publications:
- Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidence Based Approach (monograph)
- Foundations for the Future: The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria (monograph)
- Web of Performance; An Ensemble Workbook
- The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow
- Global Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: Victoria Writers’ Society; Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies; Canadian Association for Young Children; Archaeological Society of Canada; Société d’Analyse de la Topique Romanesque; Archaeological Society of British Columbia
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- text
Softwares & Platforms:
- CONTENTdm
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- Samvera
- WordPress
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Archive-It
- Archivematica
- COPPUL
- PKP Preservation Network
Additional Services:
- analytics
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- author advisory – copyright
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- contract/license preparation
- copy-editing
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- outreach
- print-on-demand
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We are planning to take on more open textbook creations over the next couple of years.
Other Information:
We have two imprints for our monograph publications: University of Victoria Libraries; ePublishing Services, University of Victoria Libraries.
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