Projects

The CSSC supports or is engaged in a number of ongoing projects pertinent to scholarly communications:

Open Access
• Promotion, education, and other initiatives around scholarly Open Access publishing, including participating in annual Open Access Week events every October

OPUS: Open ULeth Scholarship
• Developing the University of Lethbridge's institutional repository, OPUS: Open ULeth Scholarship. OPUS supports and promotes Centre activities related to disseminating and archiving research materials produced by University of Lethbridge faculty and students

Zygote to Zombie Initiative
• Developing initiatives to inform and support faculty and student best practices relating to all phases of the scholarly research workflow – from initial grant application to final research impact assessment

Digitization
• Supporting the Library’s work in identification and creation of locally-digitized collections

Journal Incubator
• The Lethbridge Journal Incubator is an experiment in the sustainability of Open Access Publication through collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies, the Library, and the Faculty of Arts & Science. The Incubator served as a prototype for the kind of research and research-mobilization the CSSC will engage in. For more on the Incubator see http://www.uleth.ca/lib/incubator/

Research Data Management
• Working with the Library, the Office of Research & Innovation Services and colleagues, both nationally and internationally, to coordinate requirements for the management of research data resulting from publicly-funded research