RAIDER Publishing

Publishing affordable digital textbooks by TTU faculty for TTU students.

This new program aims to publish textbooks written by TTU faculty which will be adopted in TTU classrooms.  Works will be peer-reviewed and sold at low-cost to increase affordability for students across campus. Currently in the pilot stage, we welcome proposals from faculty ready to work with library staff to develop the first round of high-quality, digital textbooks at affordable prices. Textbooks of all disciplines and completion status—from unwritten to unpublished to previously published—are welcome.  The program defines textbooks as works written for classroom adoption, whether traditional textbooks, readers, or lab manuals. For more information, visit our RAIDER Publishing guide.

RAIDER Publishing currently seeks authors interested in participating in the pilot stage of our new program. Contact the Digital Publishing Librarian to learn how you can work with library staff to produce a customized, high-quality, affordably-priced, digital textbook. 

Open Access Journals

TTU Libraries offers open access journal hosting and editorial support.

Open access journals at Tech include:

• Archivation Exploration
• Cefiro: Hispanic Cultural and Literary Journal
• Journal of Vernacular Music
• Journal of the Texas Tech University Ethics Center
• Texas Journal of Rural Health

Open Access Publishing

• Texas Tech University Open Access Initiative A fund of $25,000 has been allocated by the Office of the Vice President for Research to be used to help authors defray the cost of open access publication fees.
• ThinkTech Researchers and scholars can use ThinkTech to distribute and archive previously published or new works at no cost to the author or reader. Must comply with publisher policy. Visit our Submission Guide and FAQ page for step-by-step instructions.

  Featured Faculty Research in ThinkTech:

OVERVIEW

COPYRIGHT, IMPACT, AND OPEN ACCESS

CAMPUS PUBLISHING

AFFORDABLE COURSE MATERIALS

DIGITAL SERVICES

CREATE YOUR ORCID

CONTACT US

Camille Thomas
Scholarly Publishing Librarian
Phone: (806) 834-5474 
Email: Camille.Thomas@ttu.edu
Office Hours: (Room 132C) M-F 9am - 4pm

Jessica Kirschner
Digital Publishing Librarian
Phone: (806) 834-6038
Email: Jessica.Kirschner@ttu.edu
Office hours by appointment only