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 (848.34 KB PDF)
• Publication workflow in OJS 3 (881.1 KB PDF)

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 board – PDF chapter from The E-resources Management Handbook, published by UKSG

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
• A brief history of journal peer review – short video from Queensland University of Technology Library
• 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 – PDF guide from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Sample Correspondence – from the Council of Science Editors
• Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers – PDF guide from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

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: Upgrade Planning for Service Providers – short guide from PKP

Other OJS 3 and OMP 3 platforms

• Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

• Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing (NOASP)
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
• Det Kgl. Bibliotek
• Universidad de Chile

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