2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of Victoria

University of Victoria Libraries

ePublishing Services

Inba Kehoe, Manager, ePublishing Services
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
  • Languages published: English and French
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • 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

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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