Leddy Library supports faculty and students in publishing e-books through our Library Open Publishing Service.Books are published on one of two platforms: Open Monograph Press (OMP) or PressBooks. We can help you decide on the best platform for your book.
Explore our hosted books on OMP and PressBooks.
Responsibilities
There are responsibilities for both the Leddy Library and the book authors, which will be articulated in a Memorandum of Understanding.- What we do
The Leddy Library:
- Provide access to the shared platform for a new OA books
- Provide overview training for how to use the platform and workflow options
- Leddy’s Scholarly Communication Librarian will work with the author(s) to establish the new title and advise on best practices
- We can help with requesting E-ISBN registration, via Library & Archives Canada
- Issue Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for your book, via CrossRef, which we subscribe to
- We can register your new work in the Directory of Open Access Books
- We ensure that digital books are harvested globally to other search engines and open access aggregators, such as Google and OpenAire
- Ensure long-term preservation of the digital content and public access via OMP via OCUL’s Ontario Library Research Cloud
- What authors are responsible for
Book authors:
- Ideation, structure, content, indexing (if desired)
- Marketing and publicity for the work amongst your academic community
- Illustrations, images, text layout
- Leddy Library needs to be acknowledged as a partner in the publication of the book, in acknowledgements or front matter
- The system produces works in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF)
Submit a proposal
We look forward to assisting you with your publishing project.Please contact us for a consultation at: scholarship@uwindsor.ca