Our Services
OU Libraries utilizes the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform for journal publishing. Dependent on staffing, our Publishing Services team can help create a new journal or migrate an existing journal to our platform. Our publishing services include:
- set up and training on the OJS platform to manage submission, peer-review, production, and publication workflows
- training and consultation on best practices in open access journal publishing
- copyright and licensing consultation
- consultation on migrating existing content
- digitization and hosting of journal back issues
- ISSN registry
- DOI registration for published articles
- quality control of article reference DOIs
- assistance with indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and relevant disciplinary databases
- submit requests for journal inclusion in Sherpa Romeo
- readership statistics for editors and authors
- ongoing technical support for the OJS system and your journal
Our publishing services do not include:
- print-on-demand services for open access journals
Testimonials
The OU Libraries staff have been instrumental in every stage of the life of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding. They have helped with proposal preparation, platform development, technical issues for issue development, analytic data collection and analysis and indexing. They helped me take an idea and develop it into an emerging source for the dissemination of a new brand of interdisciplinary research.
From the beginning, Study & Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature has received all the support we have asked for. Recently, the most gratifying support is the research OU Libraries has gathered to support open-access journals, including evidence that articles published in open-access journals are gaining more citations than articles behind a paywall. That kind of data puts a capital A in Access, a critical issue as the production and consumption of knowledge moves more and more into digital spaces. We think the stigma associated with these platforms will dissolve.
-Crag Hill, Study & Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature
Having this opportunity to partner with OU Libraries on the production of the Journal of Forensic Social Work has been an incredible asset for the National Organization of Forensic Social Work and our profession and specialization in general. Having formerly been with a traditional publishing house, the journal had already seen academic success, but also struggled with accessibility, particularly for the non-profit and government affiliated forensic social workers who most need the journal’s content. Put honestly, the paywalls associated with traditional publishing models hindered the mission and purpose of the journal. OU Libraries helped provide the vital support needed to bring about a new chapter for JoFSW as an open-access publication. This relaunch, and archival of our back issues, has brought the journal to the people who need it most, and for that we are extremely appreciative of the support of OU Libraries and their remarkable staff.
-David McLeod, Journal of Forensic Social Work
On the recommendation of another journal editor, we looked into having OU Libraries provide the infrastructure for our new online open access journal. We all had experience as editors, but not with OJS and the system process. The staff was in every way helpful in guiding us for several months as we learned how to navigate the platform. In fact, just as we were ready to launch our first issue, the staff made sure to be available to answer any questions. The future is likely online open access for scholarly distribution – as academic editors consider the direction for their journals, we hope everyone can access the kind of positive support we received from our hosts, the Scholarly Publishing Team at OU Libraries.
-Michele Eodice, Writers: Craft & Context