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ATLA Press Update
By Christine Fruin, ATLA

During the past year, the ATLA Press made several enhancements and 
decisions to improve and grow the open access publishing program. 
ATLA joined the Library Publishing Coalition as a member to not only 
support and promote the work of ATLA Press but also to utilize LPC’s 
resources to develop educational tools and other programming to 
support ATLA’s members. ATLA also joined CrossRef, which is a Digi-
tal Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency. All ATLA open access 
content will have DOIs assigned to it, and by registering those DOIs 
with CrossRef, we will improve discovery of and linking to our open 
access publications.

The open monograph program grew with the addition of two new 
board members, Myka Kennedy and James Estes, and the promotion 
of board member Matthew Collins to editor in chief. The board has 
worked on developing editorial review policies and procedures as well 
as developing a workflow for review of book proposals and editing of 
manuscripts within the Open Monograph Publishing system. Future 
plans for the monograph program include refining the scope of works 
that will be considered for publication and developing a marketing 
plan to increase awareness by readers and potential authors.

Theological Librarianship underwent a major publishing platform 
upgrade with the move to OJS 3. The journal published two issues 
during the past year, including a special focus on open access for the 
October 2017 issue. The journal also revised its author agreement to 
clarify the rights retained by authors in their individual articles.

Two other ATLA publications made plans to migrate to open access 
beginning in 2019. Theology Cataloging Bulletin (TCB) and the Summary of 
Conference Proceedings will be open access and published through OJS, 
the same publishing platform used by Theological Librarianship. Addi-
tionally, TCB will be shifting to a new quarterly publication schedule 
to allow for a complete volume to fall within a calendar year. Finally, 
ATLA will begin publishing an annual yearbook in 2019, which will 
include many of the reports that historically have been part of the 
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Looking ahead, ATLA is piloting a new journal hosting service 
with the Wabash Center, who will be publishing a new journal in 2020 
through our OJS site http://serials.atla.com. We will also continue to 
develop webinars, workshops, and other resources related to edito-
rial best practices and library publishing to support the work of our 
members.

http://serials.atla.com

