Texas Tech University
University Libraries
Digital Resources Unit
Heidi Winkler, Digital Services LibrarianEmail: heidi.winkler@ttu.edu
Program Overview
Texas Tech University Libraries provides support for the
publication and dissemination of scholarship from the Texas Tech community
through the digitization, publication, and preservation of the community’s
scholarly outputs, from ETDs to datasets. We also provide support for increased
access to TTU research, both through our institutional repository, ThinkTech, and
through supporting local open access journals. Additional support, in line with
university-wide initiatives on increasing student affordability, is provided for the
creation of affordable digital textbooks for adoption in Texas Tech classrooms.
- Publishing activities began: 2005
- Location: United States
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library operating budget: 75%
- Grants: 25%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.Highlights
Top publications:
- FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education (journal)
- Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom (textbook)
- Archivation Exploration (journal)
- Omaggio a Ezio Gribaudo/Homage to Ezio Gribaudo (book)
- Journal of the Texas Tech University Ethics Center (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
- Education
- Spanish and Portuguese studies
- Ethics
- Archives and Special Collections
- Contemporary Italian Art
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Technologies & Services
Media formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
Softwares & platforms:
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- locally developed software
Additional services:
- author advisory – other
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- outreach