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Library Publishing Directory

2019

University of Victoria

University of Victoria Libraries

Copyright & Scholarly Communication Office

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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):
  • 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 students


Best 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
  • copyediting
  • 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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