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Monograph Hosting Service

Our Service Model

This page provides a summary of Queen’s University Library’s Publication Hosting Service [Terms and Conditions].

Acting as host and online distributor for your publication, the Library will:

  • Partner with the Ontario Council of University Libraries and its Scholars Portal technological infrastructure to host and distribute scholarly works via our publishing Platforms: Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Open Monographs Press (OMP), to publish e-journals, conference proceedings, monographs and other scholarly works.
  • Make the content hosted on the Platforms available free of charge to the University community and the public via the Internet.
  • Support Editorial Teams in the set-up and maintenance of their publication including:
    • Project startup and planning
    • Policies, guidelines and support for editors, reviewers, copyeditors and authors
    • Advice on marketing and distribution.
  • Provide support for basic configurations to the publication interface.
  • Provide advice and support on the indexing and discoverability of content via search engines like Google and the Directory of Open Access Books.
  • Mint Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for new publications that meet required criterion.  
  • Advise on researcher and publication discovery mechanisms such as ORCiD.  See: Distinguish Yourself with an ORCID iD.
  • Advise on copyrights and re-use licensing such as Creative Commons licenses
  • Training for new editorial teams on using Open Monographs Press.

The Publisher (represented by the Managing Editor) will:

  • Be responsible for any editorial workflows and production of content.
  • Grant the Library non-exclusive rights for electronic dissemination of the content, abstracts, tables of content, reference lists, and metadata describing content, via the internet.
  • Upload to the Platforms only material that is original or for which you have legal permission and does not violate any copyright.
  • Use the Platforms solely for the engagement in and promotion of scholarly activities.
  • Adhere to recognized scholarly codes of conduct and ethical practice.