Resources

A collection of user guides, documentation and other publishing resources for users of Edinburgh Diamond, Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP).

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Journal Publishing

The below resources may be helpful to those managing and publishing journals, particularly when using OJS.

Using Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Guides for journals using the Library's hosting service:

• Using OJS 3 (502.55 KB PDF)
• Publication workflow in OJS 3 (646.55 KB PDF)
• Statistics in OJS – guide from PKP
• OJS guide for authors – from PKP
• OJS guide for reviewers – from PKP

Also see:

• What can OJS do? – overview of OJS capabilities
• Learning OJS 3.1 – PKP’s official online guide to the new version of OJS
• Setting up a Journal in OJS 3 – free online course from PKP School
• Editorial Workflow in OJS 3 – free online course from PKP School

Being a Journal Editor

• My Research Essentials: Editing a Journal – quick online tutorial from the University of Manchester Library 
• Becoming an Editor – free online course from PKP School
• The editorial office (PDF) – from the Handbook for Journal Editors by INASP
• The editorial board (PDF) – chapter from The E-resources Management Handbook, published by UKSG

Managing the publication process

• Strategies for attracting authors (PDF) – from the Handbook for Journal Editors by INASP
• Working with authors (PDF) – from the Handbook for Journal Editors by INASP
• Publishing regularity (PDF) – from the Handbook for Journal Editors by INASP

Peer review

• My Research Essentials: Peer review – quick online tutorial from the University of Manchester Library
• The Golden Rules and the Peer-Review Good Practice Checklist (PDF) – appendix from Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals by Irene Hames, published by Wiley-Blackwell
• Becoming a Reviewer – free online course for reviewers from PKP School

Publication ethics and publication malpractice

• A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors – guide from the Committee on Publication Ethics
• Sample Correspondence – from the Council of Science Editors
• Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers (PDF) – guide from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Book Publishing

The below resources may be helpful to those managing and publishing book projects, particularly when using OMP.

• OMP Guide – guide from PKP

General

Creative Commons licences

• Overview of the Creative Commons licences – from Creative Commons
• Which Creative Commons licence is right for me? (PDF) – from Creative Commons Australia

Copyright & permissions

• Using somebody else's intellectual property – from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
• Crediting openly-licensed material – online attribution builder from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

• Checking DOIs before publication (PDF) – guide for journals that use OJS-generated DOIs
• Adding DOIs to your references (PDF) – guide for authors

Copyediting & production

• Copyediting and Proofreading – from The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Page composition (PDF) – from the Handbook for Journal Editors by INASP
• Creating accessible PDF documents in Word – from WebAIM, Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah State University

Promotion & discovery

• Promotional Strategies (PDF) – from the Handbook for Journal Editors by INASP
• Building Visibility: Indexes and Databases – online guide from PKP

• Building Visibility: Search Engines – online guide from PKP

Resources for service providers

The resources below may be helpful to libraries and other organisations that provide, or are planning to launch, a hosting or publishing service.

OJS and OMP resources

• PKP Documentation Hub – includes OJS 3 user guide, admin guide, GDPR guidebook, theming guide
• PKP School – collection of free online courses on OJS and journal publishing
• PKP Community Forum – ask questions, search for fixes and workarounds, and communicate with PKP and the wider OJS and OMP community
• PKP-WAL GitHub – check for reported bugs and upcoming features

Upgrading to OJS 3

• 5 Steps to OJS 3 – guide from PKP
• Upgrading to OJS 3.1: Tips and lessons learned (345.5 KB PDF)

Running a library-based publishing service

• Library Publishing Curriculum – a series of expert-written modules on various aspects of library-based publishing; the modules released so far are Content, Impact, Policy, and Sustainability
• Library Publishing Toolkit – comprehensive guide to library publishing with a range of case studies
• Institution as e-textbook publisher – textbook publishing toolkit from the Jisc project that ran in 2014-2018

Support for XML-based publishing in OJS

• XML publishing in OJS - Project summary & user guide (679.52 KB PDF)