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    LIBRARY STAFF WORKING FROM HOME: MEET EMILY!

    by Eva Romanick January 12, 2021
    written by Eva Romanick

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our staff are supporting online learning…

    Say “hello” to Emily and her pup, Noodle!

    As the Publishing & Digitization Specialist on the Library Publishing and Digital Production Services team, Emily is busy answering emails on the daily.

    On the “publishing” side, Digital Initiatives supports journal editors and textbook authors working on open access projects. For many students, researchers, authors and editors who are engaging with the publishing process for the first time, it can be a real head-scratcher. There’s a lot of elements to consider, from policies to publishing ethics, editorial workflows, copyright and everything in between. Emily helps demystify the process through consultation and documentation, all the while offering lots of software support. Our journals run on an open source platform called OJS (Open Journal Systems), which has a fantastic international community, and for which we’re a development partner. And, our textbooks are published on PressBooks.

    When a journal publishes a new issue, there is a list of routine tasks to run through: 

    • Check that things look right. Is all the information where it’s supposed to be? 
    • Check that the DOIs are working properly — dead links are annoying and detrimental! 
    • Google Scholar crawls our journals automatically, but many indexing and database services don’t. Depending on the journal, Emily may need to submit metadata (information about articles) to databases. 
    • And then, lastly, contact our awesome social media team to help signal boost! Do you follow us yet? Instagram? Twitter? Facebook? Newsblog?
    INvoke, an undergraduate journal that covers sociological topics.

    “It’s such a pleasure to work with student journals. I wish I’d known more about publishing opportunities when I was in undergrad myself!”

    All our journals are completely free to read by anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world. Check out our full list of publishings at the University of Alberta Library!

    Emily’s coworker, Noodle, is a 9-pound-nothing rescue from Mexico with very little fur… So he wears a sweater indoors 10 months of the year, and several more layers when it snows. Emily and her partner decided to join workspaces in the living room, to remind each other to take tea breaks (their 4-legged colleague never brings in any snacks).
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  • Student Journal Spotlight: Axis Mundi

    by Emily Zheng April 14, 2020
    by Emily Zheng April 14, 2020

    About a dozen student-run journals operate as a part of UAlberta’s Library Publishing Program, which supports open access publishing using the open-source platform, OJS (Open Journal Systems). These journals are edited by students, and feature the work of hundreds of student researchers from a variety of disciplines. One of these journals is Axis Mundi: A Journal of Religious Studies. Axis Mundi is an online journal edited and maintained by Religious Studies graduate…

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