York University
York University Libraries
Digital Scholarship Infrastructure
2020 CONTACT:Anna St.Onge, Director, Digital Scholarship Infrastructure
Phone: 416-736-2100
Email: astonge@yorku.ca
Program Overview
Digital Scholarship Infrastructure (DSI) is responsible for digital scholarship activities at YUL, including open publishing, digital preservation, web archiving, and digital humanities and social sciences.
The mission of Digital Scholarship Infrastructure (DSI) is to maintain and prioritize programming in the areas of digital preservation, digital scholarship, open publishing, open data, and digital humanities and social sciences (DHSS) with particular care taken to ensure sustainability (of infrastructure, resources, expertise and personnel) and the preservation of unique collections held by York University Libraries and the scholarship of York University faculty, students and community members.
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: 90%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Undergraduates: 0.25
- Library Operating Budget: 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; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | ||||
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | ||||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Journals for External Groups | ||||
| 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.
Highlights
- history
- social sciences
- gender and sexuality studies
- critical disability and critical nursing studies/praxis
- political science and labour studies
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
- audio
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- Islandora
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- Scalar
- WordPress
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- data visualization
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- image services
- ISBN registry
- metadata
- training
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- PKP Preservation Network
- Scholars Portal