Library Publishing Directory

University of Oklahoma

Bizzell Memorial Library

Academic Library · United States

Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication

https://guides.ou.edu/publishing-services

Nicholas Wojcik, Scholarly Publishing Librarian
Phone: 405-325-2429
Email: nwo@ou.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Publishing Services within the University of Oklahoma Libraries partners with campus departments and centers as well as external organizations to publish faculty-driven, peer-reviewed open access journals on the OJS platform. We are committed to supporting journals that cover diverse, unique, and underrepresented fields and topics, and we seek partners that utilize a (inter)nationally recognized editorial board and have resources and staff to publish in a timely and consistent manner.
  • Publishing activities began: 2013
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
  • Individual people: 3
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 6
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 6
  • Peer-reviewed: 6
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (journal)
  • Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature (journal)
  • Journal of Forensic Social Work (journal)
  • DC Circuits (OER/textbook)
  • Writers: Craft and Context (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Social justice and equity
  • Research in young adult literature
  • Higher education athletics
  • Forensic social work
  • Signage and wayfinding

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness 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)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • HathiTrust

Policies


Adopted Policies:
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI); Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); National Information Standards Organization (NISO); Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA); World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

Additional Information

Last Year:
Auditing existing policies, procedures, and Internal documentation, and assessing areas in need of improvement to better align with broader best practices.
Future Plans:
In 2024, we will be launching two new journals and a series of community of practice sessions for journal editors, in addition to further developing our existing policies and procedures.