University of Windsor
Leddy Library
Information Services Department
Mita Williams, Scholarly Publication LibrarianPhone: 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
- Languages published: English, French
- Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Operating Budget: 95%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 5%
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; 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 | 135 | 135 | ||
Conference papers and proceedings, student | 145 | 145 | ||
Databases | ||||
Datasets | ||||
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | ||||
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 589 | 589 | ||
Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 8 | |||
Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
Monographs | 3 | |||
Newsletters | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 45 | 45 |
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
Top Publications:
- Informal Logic (journal)
- OSSA Conference (conference proceedings)
- Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (journal)
- Critical Social Work (journal)
- Journal of Teaching and Learning (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- argumentation and rhetoric
- teaching in higher education
- Great Lakes research
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: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? yes
- Name of consortium: Scholars Portal
- Type of support: Hosting, technical support, preservation, indexing
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Dataverse
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- OJS
- OMP
- Omeka
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- print-on-demand
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
- Archivematica
- Scholars Portal
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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