Open Services Suite & Open Content
Looking to deposit a resource you've already developed?
Depending on the research or educational output(s) you have, one of our repositories may suit the material and file formats better than others. Refer to the information provided about each repository in your decision making.
Have questions or are uncertain about which repository to use? Contact us via our Open Services Suite Question Form
PRISM is UCalgary's institutional repository where your research and educational outputs can be deposited for hosting, access, preserving, and sharing.
- Research and educational materials and publications
- Reports and projects
- Reviews
- Thesis or Dissertations
- Conference and workshop posters and presentation materials
- Creative Commons Open License (default licence)
- Public Domain (CC0)
- Restricted copyright
- Host content
- Access content
- Preserve content
- Share (disseminate) content
Any file types are accepted. The file types listed below help ensure long-term preservation.
- Containers: TAR, GZIP, ZIP
- Databases: XML, CSV
- Moving images: MOV, MPEG, AVI
- Software and gaming: BAGIT, ZIP, TAR or AXF
- Sounds: WAV, AIFF, MP3
- Still images: TIFF, JPEG 2000, PDF
- Tabular data: CSV
- Text: PDF/A, EPUB
PRISM Data is UCalgary's institutional data repository for hosting, accessing, preserving, and sharing your research data openly.
- Research datasets
- Primary research materials
- Public Domain (CC0) data (default)
- Openly licensed data
- Restricted copyright data
- Host data
- Access data
- Preserve data
- Share (disseminate) data
Any file types are accepted, with some limitations on file size.
- Single file size limit: 3 GB
- Tabular file size limit: 500 MB
Examples of file types accepted:
- Documents: PDF, DOCX, TXT, PPTX
- Images: JPG, PNG, TIFF
- Videos: MOV, MP4
- Audio: MP3, WAV
- Tabular files: XLSX, SAV, DTA, R, CSV, TSV, TAB
- Compressed files: ZIP
- Personal/confidential information
- High-volume computational processing infrastructure
- Big data projects
Digital Collections is a repository for archival and multimedia-focused collections.
- LCR's library, museum, and archival primary holdings
- Albertan and Canadian collections
- Educational resources
- Openly licensed materials
- Public Domain (CC0) materials
- Restricted copyright materials
- Host materials
- Access materials
- Preserve materials
- Share (disseminate) materials
Digital Collections focuses on multimedia-based collections, which can also contain associated textual files and other file formats.
Web Archiving is a service offered for the capture, retention, and dissemination of websites affiliated with UCalgary managed through Archive-It.
- Research websites
- Teaching and learning websites, including web-based open educational resources
- UCalgary cultural heritage websites
- Openly licensed websites
- Public Domain (CC0) websites
- Restricted copyright websites
- Host archived websites
- Access archived websites
- Preserve archived websites
- Share (disseminate) archived websites
Looking to publish a new open access resource?
If you do not yet have content in a fixed form and are looking to publish a new open access resource, LCR has three publishing services for a variety of open access resources. Refer to the information about each publishing service in your decision making.
Have questions about open access, Journal Hosting, or Open Education Alberta? Contact us via our Open Services Suite Question Form
Interested in publishing with the University Press? Contact the Press via email at ucpbooks@ucalgary.ca
PRISM is UCalgary's institutional repository where your research and educational outputs can be deposited for hosting, access, preserving, and sharing.
- Research and educational materials and publications
- Reports and projects
- Reviews
- Thesis or Dissertations
- Conference and workshop posters and presentation materials
- Creative Commons Open License (default licence)
- Public Domain (CC0)
- Restricted copyright
- Host content
- Access content
- Preserve content
- Share (disseminate) content
Any file types are accepted. The file types listed below help ensure long-term preservation.
- Containers: TAR, GZIP, ZIP
- Databases: XML, CSV
- Moving images: MOV, MPEG, AVI
- Software and gaming: BAGIT, ZIP, TAR or AXF
- Sounds: WAV, AIFF, MP3
- Still images: TIFF, JPEG 2000, PDF
- Tabular data: CSV
- Text: PDF/A, EPUB
LCR's Journal Hosting Service supports open access scholarly and student journals to host and publish their journal issues and articles.
- Open Access scholarly journals
- Open Access student journals
- Subscription scholarly journals
- Openly licensed journals
- Hybrid journals
- Subscription-based journals
- Develop and publish journal issues
- Host journal content
- Access journal content
- Preserve journal content
- Disseminate (share) journal content
- File types and preferences will vary by journal for submissions and publishing.
Open Education Alberta is a publishing service for book-like resources supported by partnered Alberta institutions for openly licensed resources that allow for adaptation, re-purposing, and redistribution by others, which includes open educational resources (OER) and open access publications.
- Open educational resources or open access resources (book-like formatting)
- Open textbooks
- Toolkits
- Guides
- Tutorials
- Manuals
- Case studies, and more
- Openly licensed materials that can be shared and adapted (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA)
- Develop and publish OER
- Host OER
- Access OER
- Share (disseminate) OER
- Import to create OER: EPUB, DOCX, ODT, XML, WXR, HTML, URL, or create directly in Pressbooks platform
- Exports available for published OER: Print PDF, Digital PDF, EPUB, Pressbooks XML
- Supported file formats within OER:
- Images (embedded): JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF
- Audio (embedded): MP3, MIDI, MID, M4A
- Video (embedded): MOV, AVI, WMV, MP4
- Documents (inserted as links): PDF, EPUB, PPTX, XLSX
LCR Publishing Services in partnership with the University of Calgary Press is proud to make books available in fully Open Access PDF versions available for free use by students, scholars, and the public around the world.
As an academic publisher, we feel a responsibility to ensure that knowledge is accessible to the widest possible audience. We therefore embrace Open Access publishing and make our scholarly books available in free-to-download PDF format under a BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license in addition to publishing our books in print and for-purchase eBook formats.
If you have questions about Open Access publishing, please contact us.
Looking to develop an adapted or new Open Educational Resouces (OER)?
If you do not yet have content in a fixed form and are looking to create a new OER or adapt an existing OER, our Open Education Alberta Pressbooks publishing service may be the right fit for you.
OER are teaching, learning, and research materials that are made freely available online under an open licence in the public domain, allowing for the reuse, re-purposing, and redistribution by others. OER fulfill all 5R's of Open referred to in the About Open Content section in this guide.
Have questions about open educational resources or the Open Education Alberta service? Contact us via our Open Services Suite Question Form
Open Education Alberta is a publishing service for book-like resources supported by partnered Alberta institutions for openly licensed resources that allow for adaptation, re-purposing, and redistribution by others, which includes open educational resources (OER) and open access publications.
- Open educational resources or open access resources (book-like formatting)
- Open textbooks
- Toolkits
- Guides
- Tutorials
- Manuals
- Case studies, and more
- Openly licensed that can be shared and adapted by others (i.e. CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA)
- Develop and publish OER
- Host OER
- Access OER
- Share (disseminate) OER
- Import to create OER: EPUB, DOCX, ODT, XML, WXR, HTML, URL, or create directly in Pressbooks platform
- Exports available for published OER: Print PDF, Digital PDF, EPUB, Pressbooks XML
- Supported file formats within OER:
- Images (embedded): JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF
- Audio (embedded): MP3, MIDI, MID, M4A
- Video (embedded): MOV, AVI, WMV, MP4
- Documents (inserted as links): PDF, EPUB, PPTX, XLSX
Looking to deposit open data?
At the end of your research project you will likely be looking to deposit your open data for the purposes of long-term preservation and access. At UCalgary, we support PRISM Data as a option for data depositing. Externally there are also other options available to you depending on your needs. Refer to the information about each option in your decision making.
More information about these options can be found in the Illuminating Research Data Management Professional Development Webinar Series
PRISM Data is UCalgary's institutional data repository for hosting, accessing, preserving, and sharing your research data openly.
- Research datasets
- Primary research materials
- Public Domain (CC0) data (default)
- Openly licensed data
- Restricted copyright data
- Host data
- Access data
- Preserve data
- Share (disseminate) data
Any file types are accepted, with some limitations on file size.
- Single file size limit: 3 GB
- Tabular file size limit: 500 MB
Examples of file types accepted:
- Documents: PDF, DOCX, TXT, PPTX
- Images: JPG, PNG, TIFF
- Videos: MOV, MP4
- Audio: MP3, WAV
- Tabular files: XLSX, SAV, DTA, R, CSV, TSV, TAB
- Compressed files: ZIP
- Personal/confidential information
- High-volume computational processing infrastructure
- Big data projects
Some external repository options for depositing open data for long-term preservation and access include:
- The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR-DFDR), Canadian national repository
- Open Science Framework
- Other options can be found at the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)
OSS & Open Content Guide Licence
This guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) unless otherwise noted.
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