VIVA

Consortium · United States

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VIVA Open and Affordable Program

https://vivalib.org/

Jessica Kirschner, Digital Publishing Coordinator
Email: vivapub@gmu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The VIVA Open and Affordable Course Content Initiative investigates and supports sustainable educational resource and access models that enable equitable and inclusive learning, give faculty control over instructional materials, and lower the costs of higher education for Virginia students. As a part of the larger initiative, VIVA Open Grants empower teaching faculty to contribute to the field of open course materials by providing awardees with the tools they need to produce openly licensed course materials, including funding, platforms, and publishing support.

• Publishing activities began: 2019
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  VIVA has run a grant program since 2019. The more direct publishing services began in 2023 and are still in development.
  
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English; some foreign language OER

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Organization (e.g., non-profit association, library consortium) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
• Individual people: 2
• Students: Graduate student(s)

Publishing Activities

• Open educational resources

Highlights

Partners

• 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: Only work with internal partners
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: OER written by Virginia faculty can be submitted to the VIVA Open Grant program for consideration.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Additional Information

Last Year:
In 2023, VIVA restructured our Open Grant program to include publishing support for grantees in partnership with an external publishing services provider, Knowledge Works Global (KGL). Content creation grants can now take advantage of peer review management, copyediting, layout, and more.

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