University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Scholarly Communication and Research
2019 CONTACT:Jen Waller, Director of Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication
Phone: 405-325-7998
Email: scholarlycommunication@ou.edu
Program Overview
The University of Oklahoma Libraries supports platforms for open access journal and book publishing. We seek publishing partners who: wish to publish open access (OA) journals; wish to publish open access books in the history of science; wish to publish OER; utilize an internationally/nationally recognized editorial board; have the resources and staff to publish in a timely manner on a regular schedule; seek to publish original scholarly content; are selective in accepting quality content for publication via a rigorous peer-review process.
Publishing Activities Began: 2013
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students: 0.5
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 5
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 5
- Monographs: 1
- Textbooks: 6
- ETDs: 481
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 5
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 5
- Monographs: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- American Politics
- Organic Chemistry
- Electrical Engineering
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Signage and Wayfinding
Top Publications:
- Practice Problems in Biomedical Organic Chemistry_Volume 1_2016_v2 (OER)
- AC Circuits, 1st Edition - Davis, 2017 (OER)
- Quantitative Research Methods For Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, With Applications in R (OER)
- DC Circuits, 1st Edition - Davis, 2016 (OER)
- American Review of Politics (Journal)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research and Education (AACSRE); American Theatre Organ Society; OpenStax; Rebus Community; Open Textbook Network
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- DSpace
- OJS
- Markdown + OU Libraries Markdown Converter
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon Glacier
- Amazon S3
- Archive-It
- In-house
Additional Services:
Service Vendors: Atmire; Book-on-Demand.de; CNRI; Crossref - analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- open URL support
- outreach
- print-on-demand
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Journals are now on OJS 3 and new journal launches are automated. Goal continues to be adding two new journal titles per year and publishing OU faculty-produced OER.
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