University of Guelph Library
Technology has provided scholars with the opportunity to collaborate and conduct research in an increasing electronic environment. This in turn provides new prospects for a broad range of international interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Sharing results of such endeavours are an integral part of the process. Traditional publishing models, however, place constraints on the ability of researchers to use effective, timely methods of sharing work. When results are published in traditional publications, prohibitive subscription costs prevent many institutions from gaining access to the information.
Open access journal publications offer a new alternative. Researchers have the option of regaining control over their own work while maintaining high standards of peer-reviewed publishing.
Currently over 3000 journals are listed in the Directory of open access journals.
Our initiatives:
The University of Guelph Library is currently hosting several open access journals through our Open Journals System.
- Critical Studies in Improvisation
- CSL Leadership Review
- da Vinci's Notebook
- Guelph Ichthyology Reviews
- International Review of Scottish Studies
- Partnership
- Studies by Undergraduate Researchers at Guelph
Benefits:
Benefits to open access publishing include:
- Maximized impact of work
- Retention of rights to work
- Global distribution and exposure of work
- Cross-disciplinary readership
- Increased opportunities for collaboration
- Faster turnaround time between submission and publication
- Preservation of work
- Support of sustainable scholarly communications
Other Initiatives:
OJS
OJS or Open Journal Systems is a comprehensive journal management and publication tool developed by the Public Knowledge Project, a partnership between Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.
Synergies
Spearheaded by the Université de Montréal, the Synergies project brings together a consortium of 21 university partners to provide a portal for open-access Humanities and Social Science research in Canada. The project will consist of five regional centres acting as regional digital publication service centres. Materials to be deposited include journals, books, theses, preprints, research reports) as well as images and raw data.
Synergies uses a cost-effective public/not-for-profit partnership to maximize knowledge dissemination.
The Ontario synergies regional centre will provide a range of services:
- OJS hosting for journals including initial set up of journals and ongoing training and support.
- Integration of Synergies online journals into Scholars Portal.
- Repository and conference support services via the DSpace and OCS platforms respectively.
- Provision of back-file digitization services.
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