University of Waterloo
Digital Initiatives
2020 CONTACT:Jordan Hale, Digital Repositories Librarian
Phone: 519-888-4567 x40135
Email: jordan.hale@uwaterloo.ca
Program Overview
The Library provides open access publishing services for faculty and students based on Open Journal Systems, DSpace, Islandora and Dataverse platforms. We are a member of CrossRef, and can issue DOIs for hosted publications, and can offer DOIs to research data via DataCite Canada. We work individually with prospective editors and authors, and can also assist with ISSN registration and journal indexing referrals.
Location: Canada
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 10%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1.5
- Graduate students: 0.5
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; pre-prints.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 9 | 12 | ||
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 3 | |||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 2000 | 11100 | ||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Journals for External Groups | 1 | 1 | ||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
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: pre-prints
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
- data
- images
- text
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- Fedora
- Islandora
- OJS
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- training
- Archivematica
- LOCKSS
- Scholars Portal