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• Provide the server space to host your journal.
• Create the journal using OJS software, and help you with some basic design.
• Train journal editors and staff to use of OJS software.
• Provide help with any questions or assistance needed.
York University Libraries is committed to the dissemination of Canadian scholarly information to
a global audience. The library launched the York Digital Journals Project in order to promote the
availability and accessibility of scholarly output produced by the York University community and
its affiliates.
Funding for the Program come from the York University Library, with some limited
supplementary funding through the Synergies project. The library funding supports the hosting
environment, and staff time to create the journal web presence, training for journal editors, and
other technical assistance. It was determined that a cost recovery model for services rendered
would be prohibitive to their user community, however, the library will continue to periodically
evaluate whether some of all these services should be fee-based.
Initially the hope was that journals would become self-sufficient and ultimately be able to publish
without the help of the library, however, the library has come to realize this may not be possible
given the high staff turnover at the journals that they are working with.
Case Study: McGill University Libraries
www.mcgill.ca/library
McGill University Library is currently acting as publisher for one McGill University journal:
CuiZine, a new McGill e-journal that was launched in January 2009, and is in the process of
moving the McGill Journal of Education to McGill, from its currently hosted site in the United
States, with a view to publishing it as well. Both journals are open access and published in
electronic format only. One is using the OJS software.
As publisher of these journals, the library is hosting the journal, providing technical assistance
and training to editors, and distributing the journal via the McGill University website and the
Érudit platform based at the Université de Montréal. In addition, as a publisher the library is
providing endorsement for the journal content, as well as offering an extra level of support
beyond the more common hosting services being offered by other libraries.
The publishing services are considered a pilot project and the library is in the initial stages of
putting together a formal program that will offer these types of services to the broader McGill
community. The services are offered free of charge to the journals, but the library may introduce
fees if the program is expands.
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