Library Publishing Directory

2019

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):
  • 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 students


Best 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:
  • 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
Service Vendors: Atmire; Book-on-Demand.de; CNRI; Crossref

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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