We're thinking about starting an open access interdisciplinary digital journal on the "Comparative Wests." We don't want to reinvent the wheel. Where should we look for examples, advice, platforms we can adopt, or collaborations we might join if we go down this road. Thanks! Jon Christensen, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, @westcenter, jonchristensen@stanford.edu.
Where can we find best advice about starting an open access journal?
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Arno Bosse
MemberHi, take a look this guide: http://www.doaj.org/bpguide/ It covers most of the bases. As a platform, I recommend OJS (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs). It's fairly deep but there are ways to bypass some of its features if you don't need a full, multi-stage review and edit process. I've also found the people on the OJS forums to be helpful and accessible.
Following that you may find this guide on possible income models for open access journals to be useful as well: http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/incomemodels/
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Feel free to contact me out-of-band. dorothea.salo at gmail.
Single-source: the best I know of is the Directory of Open-Access Journals's Best Practices Guide. If that's not enough...
Journal tendering for societies: a brief guide has useful background information. So does Jan Velterop's Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies.
On the mechanics of electronic publishing generally, try Sally Morris's Getting Started in Electronic Journal Publishing.
With regard to software, the open-source choice is currently Open Journal Systems. Before you decide to download and install it, CHECK WITH YOUR LIBRARY (and have your fellows at other institutions do likewise). Chances aren't bad that one of your libraries either runs an OJS installation or has purchased the BePress suite of institutional-repository services, which includes a journal-publishing platform.
Hope this helps!
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Based on your stanford.edu email, I took a look around and found this local-to-you OJS hosting offer.
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