The Alexander Journal

OU Libraries partners with OU's Weitzenhoffer College of Fine Arts to publish The Alexander Journal. The journal has been in continuous publication in the United States and United Kingdom since 1962, but switched to an annual open access publishing model with OU Libraries beginning with Issue 29 in 2024.

The Alexander Journal is an international, diverse, multidisciplinary, pluralistic (recognizing diverse sources of authority) journal focusing on the F. Matthias Alexander Technique, its theory, principles, and applications in various fields. It offers scholarly articles from all theoretical perspectives and application areas, including quantitative and qualitative research, case studies, literature surveys, reflective essays, reviews of books and journal articles published elsewhere, and interviews based on personal experiences that are often practical notes from the field.

Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding

OU Libraries partners with the Division of Regional and City Planning in the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture to publish the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding (IJSW), a bi-annual open access journal that launched in December 2016.

Scholars and professionals from the fields of engineering, business, marketing, art, architecture, planning, and law, have long produced scholarship related to on-premise signs and way finding. However, this research has often been difficult to find because of its dispersal in publications across an array of fields. Sponsored by the Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research and Education (AACSRE), IJSW seeks to fill that gap and be the home for scholarship in the area of signage and wayfinding, and to make that scholarship accessible to academics and practitioners alike.

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity

OU Libraries partners with OU's Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) to publish the Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE). JCSCORE is a bi-annual open access journal that published its inaugural issue in May 2015.

The journal explores and examines interaction from interdisciplinary perspectives and reports on the status, needs, and direction of human relations studies affected by race, ethnicity and sovereignty in higher education policy, practice, and theory.

Journal of Forensic Social Work

OU Libraries partners with the National Organization of Forensic Social Work to publish the Journal of Forensic Social Work (JoFSW). JoFSW was launched in 2011 and published by Taylor & Francis until 2015. It was then relaunched in March 2022 as an open access journal published bi-annually by the University of Oklahoma Libraries, with the support of the Ruth Knee Institute for Transformative Scholarship and the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma.

JoFSW contributes to the current forensic knowledge base by publishing peer-reviewed original research, analyses, reviews, and thought-provoking essays on pressing social issues and promising forensic social work practices and policies. Articles in JoFSW analyze issues from a broad spectrum of professions, disciplines, theories, and methodologies, at the individual, family, community, organizational, and societal levels.

Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation

OU Libraries partners with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education to publish the bi-annual Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation (JHEAI). Founded in 2015 as an open access journal, JHEAI published its inaugural issue in December 2016.

The journal publishes original research reporting on the academic study of the intersection between intercollegiate athletics and higher education as a broad enterprise. The journal is inclusive of research investigating NCAA participating member institutions, NAIA institutions, and other organizations and associations that support college sports.

Single Case in the Social Sciences

OU Libraries partners with the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education to publish the bi-annual open access journal Single Case in the Social Sciences (SCSS), which launched in 2024.

SCSS publishes original experimental single-case studies, systematic reviews, and methods articles biannually to expand knowledge across applied behavior analysis, counseling, education, psychology, social work, and related fields. Aligned with open science guidelines, the journal provides a specialized outlet for rigorous single-case research with transparent reporting. As an educational resource and forum for open science practices, SCSS is independently published through the University of Oklahoma Libraries and supported by reviewers, sponsors, and an editorial team dedicated to disseminating quality work for the advancement of single case research.

Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature

OU Libraries partners with the Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education to publish Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, an open access journal in publication annually since June 2015.

While Young Adult Literature is a field bursting with vitality for writers, readers, publishers, and teachers, it's time for scholarship in the form of critical studies and empirical research to closely examine the explosion of Young Adult literature. Focusing on the scholarship of Young Adult Literature, Study and Scrutiny is a peer-reviewed journal, published biannually.

Writers: Craft & Context

OU Libraries partners with faculty members from the OU Writing Center, the Center for Faculty Excellence, and the Department of English to publish the bi-annual open access journal Writers: Craft & Context, which launched its inaugural issue in August 2020.

Writers: Craft & Context is an open access journal that publishes material focused on writers: the work they do, the contexts in which they compose and circulate their work, how they are impacted by policies and pedagogies, and how they develop across the lifespan. The journal especially welcomes work on writers that doesn’t fit neatly elsewhere and is committed to a vision of "equitable representation in our scholarship and in our field at large.”