Faculty Authors: Start Here
Start the Conversation
W&M Press is here to provide the platform, the expertise, and the support to turn your ideas into a professional Open Access reality. Whether you have a finished manuscript or a collection of course materials and an idea, your first step is to reach out.
What we’ll discuss in the consult
- Your goals and audience for the work
- Potential media or interactive elements to be included
- Access options, including web-based, PDF, EPUB, and print
- Creative Commons licensing
- Questions you have about W&M Press, our process, rights, etc.
The Process
W&M Press is a library publishing service, where you supply the scholarship and we take care of the technical setup and production that makes your Open Access work available to the world.
- Fill out the interest form and we schedule a conversation
- Production planning together
- We provide guides and support to prepare your materials
- You deliver your manuscript package
- We produce the work in various formats
- You review proofs
- Your work is published
Is your project a fit?
We invite faculty to publish or adapt Open Educational Resources with the Press. This includes opportunities to publish or modify open textbooks and develop supplemental teaching materials. Faculty are also encouraged to contribute multimedia content and pedagogical research with practical classroom applications.
A good fit for W&M Press:
- Scholarly Monographs
- Edited Collections
- Critical Editions
- Interdisciplinary Works
- Works created for a specific course that could be used in other settings or at other institutions
- Works intended for a broader audience
Not a good fit:
- Works with Significant Copyright Restrictions
- Works with a Strong Commercial Market
Not sure? Let’s talk!
Advantages to Publishing OER with W&M Press
W&M Press is a library publishing program that produces Open Access works from W&M faculty. We use the Pressbooks publishing platform, which allows us to design for and distribute to multiple formats at once, including HTML, EPUB, PDF, and XML.
- We support you throughout the process.
- Technical aspects of publishing are covered, so you can focus on scholarship.
- Design and distribution for multiple formats, digital and print.
- Include interactive content.
- Meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements.
- You retain copyright to your work.
- There are no fees for our services.
- URL, DOI, and ISBNs are provided.
- Maximize discovery of your work through metadata and indexing, and promotion on W&M sites.
- Preservation in ScholarWorks.
