Scholar Ellyssa Kroski some weeks back wrote a paper describing 6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free). The article is available as a free HTML download. It was an eye-opener for me.
What makes it possible is a free open-source software Open Journal Systems (OJS), made available by the Public Knowledge Project. Once the software is installed on a host server, it will handle journal design, track article submissions and more. Kroski’s article explains it all. Central to scholarly journals is the peer-review process: nothing is published until it passes muster with scholarly peers. OJS helps to manage this process.
Kroski also gives links to several example journals, including Health and Human Rights: An International Journal and Ecology and Society.
Having never heard about open source journals, I of course did a Google search. Lo and behold, I discovered a list of 13 open-source journal publishing programs. And Google lead me to a Directory of Open Access Journals, not really the same thing exactly, but I’m guessing many are published by one of the open-source publishing programs. Anyway, there are currently 1850 of them listed there!
So… for those of you who want to Become A Writer — REALLY SERIOUSLY!: Look into scholarly publishing. And while you are at it, why not use the newly released upgrade to the free open-source suite OpenOffice 3.2.
By the way, do any academics, scholars or teachers read this blog? Would love to hear from you.
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