Atla
Christine Fruin, Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives ManagerEmail: 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%
- Professional staff: 2
- 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
- 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)
- librarianship
- theological studies
- religious studies
Partners
Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialtyBest 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.
Technologies & Services
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- OJS
- OMP
- 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
- 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.
← Return to Directory