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:
- 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
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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
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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
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
Scholarly Communications Team
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