Publishing an Online Open Access Journal

This guide provides advice and resources for faculty, staff, or students who are considering starting an online open access journal. MSU Libraries provides a hosting platform and technical support.

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.

Journal Credibility

Work to establish your journal's credibility.

Invite well-known scholars in the field to contribute to a special issue.
Include your journal in well-known indexing, abstracting, and full-text databases.
List your journal in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Have a marketing plan in place to draw attention to your journal via social media and other venues (e.g., listservs).

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