Publish conference proceedings

Leddy Library supports faculty and students in publishing conference proceedings through our Library Open Publishing Service.

Conference proceedings are hosted on Scholarship at UWindsor, the University of Windsor's institutional repository. The repository uses the Digital Commons platform, a product by Elsevier.

Explore our hosted conference proceedings.
 

Responsibilities

There are responsibilities for both the Leddy Library and the conference editors, which will be articulated in a Memorandum of Understanding.
 
What we do

The Leddy Library:

  • Provide access to the shared platform for a new open conference proceedings 
  • Provide overview training for how to use the platform and workflow options 
  • Leddy’s Scholarly Communication Librarian will work with the conference organizer(s) to establish the new proceedings and advise on best practices 
  • Issue Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for your papers, via CrossRef, which we subscribe to 
  • We ensure that digital papers are harvested globally to other search engines and open access aggregators, such as Google and OpenAire 
  • Ensure long-term preservation of the digital content and public access via OMP via OCUL’s Ontario Library Research Cloud 
 
 
What conference editors are responsible for

Conference editors:

  • Marketing and publicity for the journal amongst your academic community 
  • Issuing a Call for Proposals, assigning reviewers, reviewing and decisioning papers for inclusion in the conference 
  • Any copyediting of articles 
  • Putting together new years of the proceedings; we can help publish new proceedings of the same conference for you 
  • Leddy Library needs to be acknowledged as a partner in the publication of the conference, on the conference website(s) 


Submit a proposal

We look forward to assisting you with your publishing project.

Please contact us for a consultation at: scholarship@uwindsor.ca
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