Research Guides: Publishing an Online Open Access Journal: Journal Quality and Credibility

Journal Quality

Ensure that your journal adheres to professional standards.

Code of Conduct - Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
A good place to start - the OASPA sets forth rigorous criteria for its member journals.

Your discipline may also have standards and formatting norms in place.

Guide to Open Access & Your Discipline
This guide from Boston College Libraries may help you identify your discipline's standards for OA journal quality.

Work to establish your journal's credibility.

Invite well-known scholars in the field to contribute to a special issue.
Consider sending invitations as one to one messages from your professional email address. This will prevent your emails being labeled "spam" or "marketing" and being sent to a trash folder. This method also helps prevent the misinterpretation of your journal being "predatory."
Include your journal in well-known indexing, abstracting, and full-text databases.
List your journal in the Directory of Open Access Journals. A helpful starting place is the Guide to applying.
Have a marketing plan in place to draw attention to your journal via social media and other venues (e.g., listservs).