University of Windsor
Leddy Library
Information Services Department
2019 CONTACT:Mita Williams, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 519-253-3000 ext. 3855
Email: mita@uwindsor.ca
Program Overview
The Leddy Library supports the dissemination of new scholarship by undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff at the University of Windsor.
Publishing Activities Began: 2007
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: Canada
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 95%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 5%
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 6
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
- Monographs: 2
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 5
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 104
- ETDs: 215
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 42
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 7
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
- Monographs: 8
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- argumentation and rhetoric
- teaching in higher education
- Great Lakes research
Top Publications:
- Informal Logic (journal)
- OSSA Conference (conference proceedings)
- Collected Essays on Teaching & Learning (journal)
- Phaenex (journal)
- Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (journal)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsExternal Partners: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- OJS
- OMP
- Pressbooks
- bepress (Digital Commons)
- locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- LOCKSS
- Scholars Portal
Additional Services:
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- contract/license preparation
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- print-on-demand
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Continue supporting campus partners and finding new campus projects. Expanding to connect with scholarly societies and research groups that have researcher connections on campus.
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