Getting Published

Created by DOAJ and OASPA, the OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established open access journals to navigate the rapidly changing scholarly publishing landscape.

A step by step guide to completing a DOAJ application. While this is designed for library publishers, its guidance is useful for all university journal publishing activity.

From the Scholarly Kitchen, a helpful list of items to consider when starting a new journal, such as identifiers, publication schedule, metadata and indexing, etc.

From the Scholastica platform, this blog post provides tips for determining the best OA publishing route and the primary steps to get an OA journal off the ground, with links to additional external guides.

Guidance on developing a copyright and licensing policy for journals.

A comprehensive guide through each step of the planning process for the launch and operation of an open-access journal.

A guide to transitioning a journal to an open access model, produced by SPARC.

COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct.

CrossRef provides persistent identifier registration, particularly DOIs.

DataCite supports creation and management of DOIs and metadata records for research data.

Janeway is a journal management system developed by the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Janeway is a full platform allowing submission, review, editing and production of scholarly articles before then processing them for display.

a free, open-source platform designed for journal management and publishing.

An innovative open source publication platform supported by Knowledge Futures.

A low-cost open access journal publishing platform.

A hosted open access journal publishing platform, supported by low article processing charges

The publications division of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, publishing open access monographs and journals.

Published by the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education.

Published by the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education.