University of Waterloo Library
Digital Initiatives
Jordan Hale, Digital Repositories LibrarianPhone: 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.
- Publishing Activities Began: 1998
- Location: Canada
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
- Journals that assess article processing charges: 10%
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; datasets; 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; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 230 | 230 | ||
Conference papers and proceedings, student | 120 | 120 | ||
Databases | ||||
Datasets | 19 | 19 | ||
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | 34 | 34 | ||
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 1001 | 1001 | ||
Journals, campus-based faculty-created | ||||
Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
Journals, contracted by external groups | 1 | |||
Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
Monographs | ||||
Newsletters | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | 7 | |||
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 2 |
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
- Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (journal)
- Canadian Food Studies (journal)
- engineering
- computer science
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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)
Best publications to refer to our program: Open Journal Systems
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? yes
- Name of consortium: Public Knowledge Project
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
- data
- text
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- Islandora
- OJS
- author advisory – copyright
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- ISSN registry
- outreach
- training
- Scholars Portal