Atlantic

The Electronic Text Centre at UNB Libraries has supported the distribution of academic journals in digitized formats since its inception in 1996. The increase in numbers of journals requesting this support has been slow but steady; the past year has seen the steepest increase, with ten journals requesting not only distribution services but online journal management functionality as well.

Costing for this support is worked out with each individual journal depending on the journal’s requirements. Journals choose from a menu of four production models:

• hosting of the Open Journal System (OJS) for journal management;
• hosting and XML light markup based on the Érudit data model;
• hosting and XML detailed markup;
• hosting and XML markup based on other data models

Costs range from $500 to ~$1,800 per year, a cost based on two issues per year (and with $500 being the minimum for site maintenance, alone). Back catalog digitization is also supported, and the Centre has been digitizing back catalogues for several journals.

A collaborative relationship with academic journal editors is a fundamental feature of journal workflows. Editors maintain control over key decisions such as levels of open access and subscription bases; editors can also select multiple access points through disseminating with a number of other aggregating services. A collaborative relationship with Synergies nodes is also a fundamental feature of Synergies developments. For example, UNB is working with SFU to investigate expanding OJS functionality with aggregators in mind.

Finally, a major component of the Atlantic Synergies node’s regional governance structure is a Journal Advisory Committee, the main directive of which is to identify ways academic journals can take advantage of the infrastructure Synergies was funded to build. This committee will comprise a representative group of scholarly journal editors; the Synergies Project Manager (Erik Moore); representatives from the lead institution (UNB); and two representatives elected by the Board of Directors. Dr. Margaret Conrad, a Tier I CRC Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies, will act as committee Chair. This committee will encourage regional journal participation, and will focus on best practices (business plans and publishing models), open access, and copyright, among other issues.

Québec

Érudit, the Québec node of Synergies, is an infrastructure for the production and dissemination of research at the service of the university community since 1998. Érudit is an interinstitutional consortium composed of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Érudit is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to produce and disseminate both backfiles and current issues of scholarly journals. Through its developments and research in digital publishing, Érudit contributes to the evolution of the expertise in the field of scientific publishing.

Services offered:

• Digital publishing of current issues in XML, PDF, and XHTML formats;
• Management of institutional and individual subscriptions;
• Digitization of backfiles issues in XML and PDF formats;
• Preparation of the articles’ descriptive data and delivery to bibliographical databases.
  

Érudit welcomes any learned journal, regardless of its publisher and country of origin, provided it satisfies the criteria of admissibility adopted by the Editorial Committee, composed of leading scholars and researchers.

I you wish to obtain more information or to request an estimate for the digital version of your journal, contact the Érudit team.

Journal Services flyer

Érudit, un des cinq pôles du réseau Synergies, est une infrastructure de production et de diffusion de la recherché au service de la communauté universitaire depuis 1998. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire composé de l’Université de Montréal, de l’Université Laval et de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

Société sans but lucratif, Érudit diffuse en ligne les collections courantes et rétrospectives d’une cinquantaine de revues savantes. Par ses développements et ses recherches en édition numérique, l’équipe d’Érudit contribue au développement d’une expertise de pointe dans le domaine de l’édition scientifique.

Services offerts :

• Édition numérique des numéros courants en formats XML, PDF et XHTML;
• Numérisation rétrospective des collections en formats XML et PDF;
• Préparation des données descriptives des articles et envoi aux bases de données bibliographiques;
• Gestion des abonnements institutionnels et individuels.

Érudit accueille toute revue scientifique, quel que soit l’éditeur ou le pays d’origine, sous réserve qu’elle satisfasse aux critères d’admissibilité adoptés par le Comité éditorial, composé de professeurs et chercheurs réputés.

Vous souhaitez obtenir des informations plus détaillées, ou demander un devis pour la mise en ligne de votre revue? Communiquez avec l’équipe d’Érudit.

Dépliant sur les services aux revues d’Érudit.

Ontario

Ontario will provide a range of services:

1. Open Journal System hosting for journals. Journals will be provided with initial set up and ongoing training and support. As of January 2009, an annual $750 journal hosting fee will be charged. Fee waivers will be assessed on a case by case basis.
2. Integration of Synergies online journals into Scholars Portal.
   Scholar Portal is an integrated search and delivery service for scholarly journals and other publications housing over 100 million citations in all disciplines. From January 2005 to April 2007 20 million searches were conducted and 12 million articles from 8,000 electronic journals were downloaded. Scholars Portal services are available faculty, students and staff in Ontario’s 20 universities.
3. Repository and conference support services via the DSpace and the Open Conference System platforms respectively.
4. The Ontario node also provides back file digitization services.

For further information please contact:

Rea Devakos
Project Lead, University of Toronto Libraries
e-mail: rea.devakos@utoronto.ca
Tel.: 416 946 0113

Wayne Johnston
Web / Digital Initiatives Librarian. University of Guelph
e-mail: wajohnst@uoguelph.ca
Tel.: (519) 824-4120, ext. 56900

Joan Dalton
Associate University Librarian, University of Windsor
e-mail: jdalton@uwindsor.ca
Tel.: (519) 253-3000 ext. 3201

Andrea Kosavic
Digital Services Librarian, York University
e-mail: akosavic@yorku.ca
Tel.: 416-736-2100 Ext: 20459

Prairies

The Synergies Prairie Node will provide the following services for journals:

• Infrastructure for online journal publishing through a supported Open Journals System (OJS) installation.
• Full services for journals wishing to go online, but training will also be available for those who prefer to use the OJS software more independently.
• Assistance for authors and journals who wish to automatically add their articles to campus institutional repositories.
• Institutional repository services for accompanying materials such as raw data, files multimedia, etc. - working with journals to preserve these ancillary materials on a long term basis.
• Journal back file digitization services.
• Inclusion in the national Synergies dissemination portal.
• Option of qualifying to be published under the imprint of the University of Calgary Press.

Journal Services brochure

For more information on journal services, contact:

Judy Powell
Journals Manager, University of Calgary Press
e-mail: powell@ucalgary.ca
Tel: (403) 220-3512

For more information on the University of Calgary Institutional Repository, contact:

Mary Westell
Associate University Librarian
e-mail: westell@ucalgary.ca
Tel: (403) 220-3764

The Prairie node preservation program will feature a distributed network of repositories, developing the first trusted digital repository for scholarly content which will combine existing technologies like LOCKSS and yet-to-be-developed technologies through Synergies research and development efforts. Working closely with other Canadian models, including the Scholars Portal and the early adopters of Portico, Synergies will demonstrate how research knowledge can be preserved in Canada.

For more information on the preservation initiatives, contact:

Tim Au Yeung
Manager, Digital Object Repository Technology
University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources
e-mail: ytau@ucalgary.ca
Tel: (403) 220-8975

British Columbia

The Synergies BC node provides support for journals in several ways. The SFU Library coordinates the development of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) software suite. This includes the Open Journals System (OJS); Open Conference System (OCS); the PKP metadata harvester; and several new modules under development. This open source software is readily available for downloading from the PKP Website. Documentation, instructional videos, links to the PKP support forum, and information on PKP's partnerships and related initiatives are also available on the website.

Through the combined resources of the SFU Library and SFU's Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, the Synergies BC node offers the full complement of online journal publishing support. The SFU Library provides several hosting and support options on its servers for journals. The details, support agreement, and costs are available at the Software @ SFU Library website. For Synergies-eligible journals, the hosting fee is waived until Dec. 31, 2008. SFU's Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing — CCSP Press — provides journal publishing support including layout, editing, and production as well as non-technical assistance for those transitioning to online format or creating a new online journal.

SFU Library also provides support for academic digitization and repository projects such as the Community Health Online Digital Archive Research Resource (CHODARR); the Mai '68 events archive; or the 2005 conference papers of the Digital Games Research Association.

For more information contact:

Brian Owen
Associate University Librarian
Email: brian_owen@sfu.ca
Phone: 778.782.7095

Lynn Copeland
University Librarian and Dean of Library Services
Email: copeland@sfu.ca
Phone: 778.782.3265

Rowland Lorimer
CCSP Director
Email: lorimer@sfu.ca
Phone: 778.782.5240