Resources

A collection of user guides, documentation and other publishing resources for users of the journal hosting a service and Open Journal Systems (OJS).

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Using Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Guides for journals using the Library's hosting service:

• Using OJS 3 (979.58 KB PDF)
• Publication workflow in OJS 3 (881.1 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)

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)