University of Victoria
University of Victoria Libraries
ePublishing Services
Inba Kehoe, Manager, ePublishing ServicesEmail: 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
- Languages published: English and French
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage Comments:
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Grants: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; 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; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; research reports; posters; archiving articles published by faculty; masters projects.| 2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 340 | 340 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | ||||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 1 | 1 | ||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
| Monographs | 3 | 3 | ||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | 4 | 4 | ||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 1 | 1 |
2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- humanities and social sciences
- law
- technical writing
- performance education and theatre
- community based research
Partners
Internal Partners: individual facultyOpenness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? yes
- Name of consortium: BCcampus
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- CONTENTdm
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- Samvera
- WordPress
Additional Services:
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- copyediting
- 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
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Archive-It
- Archivematica
- COPPUL
- LOCKSS
- PKP Preservation Network
Additional Information
Other Information:We have two imprints for our monograph publications: University of Victoria Libraries; ePublishing Services, University of Victoria Libraries.
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