Open Access Publishing

Beginning in 2007, The Ohio State University Libraries have been developing a program to publish scholarly content. During this time, we have hosted journals using both the open-source repository software DSpace and the open-source digital publishing system, Open Journal Systems (OJS). If you are the editor of an electronic publication affiliated with The Ohio State University and would like to work with the Libraries, please contact Tschera Connell at connell.17@osu.edu.

What do we do?

  • We support open-access electronic journal publishing, from manuscript submission and peer review to publishing and access controls, by members of the OSU community.
  • We take care of the technical aspects of hosting a digital journal, from registering a URL to hosting the site to ensuring reliable and long-term access to the content, so that editors can foucs on choosing and preparing high-quality content.

Why?

  • To support OSUL faculty and students in journal publishing
  • To support OSUL's efforts to provide open access to scholarly materials

What can we do for you?

  • Create a journal site
  • Prepare content for web delivery
  • Handle journal management through platform
  • Maintain the server for the journal content
  • Handle DNS management
  • Handle issue management
  • Provide copyright guidance
  • Provide technical support for journal site
  • Provide end-user journal access

Evaluation Tools

In mid-2008, we conducted a parallel evaluation of two electronic publishing systems, OJS and DPubS. Below are links to some of our findings, as well as tools that we developed to conduct the evaluation. We post them here in hope that they may be useful to other institutions considering electronic publishing.