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2022 Library Publishing Directory

Atla

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Christine Fruin, Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives Manager
Email: cfruin@atla.com

Program Overview

Atla Open Press publishes open access books, journals, and other serials that cover subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological studies that potentially impact libraries, that guide and support innovative library services, that enhance professional development for religious studies and theological librarians, and that represent specialized topics of interest in religion and theology that are of relevance to the work of libraries in supporting the instructional and research activities of their institutions.

  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: organization (e.g. non-profit association, library consortia) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage comments:
  • Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Peer reviewed journals: 50%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • Other: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; technical/research reports.

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty 1 1
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) 2 2
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 2 2
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups 2 2
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs 5 5
Newsletters
Technical/research reports 1 1
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top publications:
  • Introduction to Theological Libraries (monograph)
  • Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship: Theory & Praxis (monograph)
  • Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion (monograph)
  • Theological Librarianship (journal)
  • Theology Cataloging Bulletin (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
  • librarianship
  • theological studies
  • religious studies

Partners

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty

Best publications to refer to our program: Works that pertain to librarianship or the support of teaching and learning in religion and/or theology as pertains to information science/librarianship.

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
Softwares & platforms:
  • OJS
  • OMP

Additional services:
  • DOI distribution
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital preservation strategy:
  • In-house
  • Portico

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We plan to explore multimodal scholarship more and how we can support it as a Press. We also, through our OER Grant Program, hope to expand our OER offerings through the Press.
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