University of Victoria
University of Victoria Libraries
ePublishing Services
2020 CONTACT:Inba Kehoe, Copyright & 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.
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across several campuses
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
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
- Grants: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; research reports, posters, archiving articles published by faculty, masters projects.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Databases | 0 | |||
| ETDs | 689 | 689 | 0 | 0 |
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Journals for External Groups | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Monographs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newsletters | 0 | 0 | ||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | 0 | |||
| Technical/Research Reports | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Textbooks | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 6 | 6 | 0 |
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: research reports; posters; archiving articles published by faculty; masters projects
Highlights
- humanities and social sciences
- law
- technical writing
- performance education and theatre
- community based research
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Technologies & Services
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- CONTENTdm
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- Samvera
- WordPress
- analytics
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- outreach
- print-on-demand
- typesetting
- Archive-It
- Archivematica
- COPPUL
- LOCKSS
- PKP Preservation Network
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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