Newfound Press Resources for Journal Editors
Getting Started
Three open access guides provide in depth business planning advice for converting a subscription-based journal to open access or for launching a “born-digital” journal. They include:
Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access v3
Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal v2
Model Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers & Publishers
The Directory of Open Access Journals lists over 3,000 free, open access, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Selecting a Journal Title
Look at the Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory (subscription required; available in print and electronic formats). University of Tennessee, Knoxville faculty, staff and students may connect through the library’s database menu or directly to Ulrich’s for a list of more than 300,000 magazines and journals, from trade to scholarly treatment. The advanced search feature enables limiting to academic/scholarly journals, and to titles that are refereed, online, covered in abstracting/indexing services or in specific databases, like Journal Citation Reports or ScienceDirect.
The Scholarly Publishing Environment
SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition has many resources to support scholarly publishing. See the numerous guides and planning resources available for publishers.
Open Access News is a blog edited by Peter Suber at Earlham College.
Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide (Otto Harrassowitz)
Provided as an archival resource (last updated in February 2007), this site contains a useful overview of issues related to creating and managing electronic journals.
Electronic Peer Review Management: Bibliography and Summary
A report prepared for the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office. Describes functions of online peer-review tools, summarizes articles, lists software tools, and names journals using automated peer review.
Editorial Software
SPARC offers a lengthy list of journal management systems
Public Knowledge Project
Founded by John Willinsky in the College of Education at the University of British Columbia in 1998, the Public Knowledge Project received federal funding to expand and improve access to research. Among the valuable resources accessible through the PKP site are:
Open Journal Systems
OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions to online publication and indexing. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale. See OJS Frequently Asked Questions
OJS in an Hour
A manual for using the Open Journal Systems. Contains documentation for using OJS in each step of the editorial process.
PKP Publications
Documentation, guides, and publications by members of the PKP community.