University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

University of Arkansas Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://libraries.uark.edu/oedp/
• uarepos@uark.edu

Office of Open Education, Data, and Publishing Services

https://libraries.uark.edu/oedp/

Lora Lennertz, Director of Open Education, Data, and Publishing Services (OEDP)
Phone: 479-575-7197
Email: lennertz@uark.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The OEDP offers guidance, consultation, and instruction assistance in the creation of openly published textbooks and articles, navigating author rights and the use of copyrighted materials, and all areas of data management. The department also maintains ScholarWorks, our institutional repository, and Pressbooks, our textbook authoring software.

• Publishing activities began: 2006
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4
• Individual people: 4
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library operating budget; Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Open educational resources
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  Digital Services publishes exhibitions for internal collection as well as collections built with external entities. This Office provides collections through ContentDM and helps digitize works for our institutional repository.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  The libraries openly copublish Arkansas authors' works with the University of Arkansas Press.
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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