2020 Library Publishing Directory

University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma Libraries

Open Initiatives & Scholarly Communication

2020 CONTACT:
Jen Waller, Director of Open Initiatives & Scholarly Communication
Phone: 405-325-7998
Email: jenwaller@ou.edu

Program Overview

The University of Oklahoma Libraries supports platforms for open access journal publishing and an institutional repository. We seek publishing partners who: wish to publish open access (OA) journals; wish to publish open access books or open educational resources (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 (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 0.25
  • Graduate students: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; newsletters; OER that are not textbooks; lab manuals; curriculum guides; book chapters; problem sets.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal7700
Campus-based Student-driven Journals5500
Databases
ETDs522940200
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings
Journals for External Groups
Monographs
Newsletters1218500
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks3900
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

  • Library Publishing Activities: OER that are not textbooks; lab manuals; curriculum guides; book chapters; problem sets

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (journal)
  • Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration (With Applications in R), 3rd Edition (textbook)
  • DC Circuits (textbook)
  • Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding (journal)
  • Practice Problems in Biomedical Organic Chemistry: Self-Guided Problems and Answers for Students in Bioorganic and Organic Chemistry, Volume I (Non-textbook OER)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • social justice and equity
  • American politics
  • higher education and athletics
  • signage and wayfinding
  • electrical engineering

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • HathiTrust

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
OU Libraries journal publishing services address OU’s commitment to helping research communities share knowledge and ideas through open and responsible collaboration. We work to put research back in the hands of academics. Several other journals are on the waiting list to join our portfolio. 2020 will be the seventh cycle of Alternative Textbook Grants, a program that assists OU faculty members in transitioning from high cost textbooks to openly licensed resources which are free or low cost to students. To date, this program has saved OU students $3.1M in displaced textbook costs.
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