University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

University of Arkansas Libraries

Academic Library · United States

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 (textbooks/course modules)
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 7
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 6
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 9

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema (textbook)
  • Journal of Research on the College President (journal)
  • Arkansas Law Notes (journal)
  • Journalistic Writing Skills (textbook)
  • Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Apparel merchandizing, production, and design
  • Law
  • Journalism

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Pressbooks

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Developmental and/or substantive editing
  • analytics
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Archivematica