title: Model collaboration: university library system and rehabilitation research team to advance telepractice knowledge.
abstract: This Publisher's Report describes the collaboration between a university library system's scholarly communication and publishing office and a federally funded research team, the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation. This novel interdisciplinary collaboration engages librarians, information technologists, publishing professionals, clinicians, policy experts, and engineers and has produced a new Open Access journal, International Journal of Telerehabilitation, and a developing, interactive web-based product dedicated to disseminating information about telerehabilitation. Readership statistics are presented for March 1, 2011 - February 29, 2012.
authors.affiliation: Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.
authors.forename: Timothy S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Deliyannides
authors.affiliation: Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gabler
keywords: Open Access journal; telerehabilitation