Guides for OA journal publishers

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * This is a list of guidelines, primers, recommendations, and best practices for publishers of OA journals. When possible, give authors, titles, links, publishers (or sponsoring organizations), and dates.


 * Note the dates. Some of these guides are new and some are fairly old.


 * Alphabetical by author.


 * Related lists on OAD: (1) Free and open-source journal management software, (2) OA journal business models, (3) OA journal launch services.


 * For real-time updates, some not yet reflected here, follow the oa.guides.journals tag of the Open Access Tracking Project.


 * Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG):
 * OA publishing case studies
 * Starting an OA journal


 * Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Essential Guide: How to start an Open Access journal in five steps, LSE Impact Blog, September 2014.


 * Centre for Digital Cultures, Hybrid Publishing Lab, and Leuphana University of Lüneburg, How to Start an Open Access Journal, 2014.


 * Raym Crow, Sponsorships for Nonprofit Scholarly &amp; Scientific Journals: A Guide to Defining &amp; Negotiating Successful Sponsorships, SPARC, Release 1.0, July 2005.


 * Raym Crow and Howard Goldstein, Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal, Open Society Institute, Version 2, July 2003.


 * Raym Crow and Howard Goldstein, Model Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers &amp; Publishers, Open Society Institute, Edition 1, July 2003.


 * Raym Crow and Howard Goldstein, Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access, Open Society Institute, Version 3, February, 2004.


 * Mark Cyzyk and Sayeed Choudhury, A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems, Johns Hopkins University and the Open Society Institute, April 2008.


 * Martin Paul Eve, Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide (part 1, part 2), July 2012.


 * Rick Johnson, Declaring Independence: A Guide to Creating Community-Controlled Science Journals, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) and TRLN (the Triangle Research Libraries Network), 2001. Only an abridgment is still online.


 * Public Library of Science, Publishing Open-Access Journals: A Brief Overview from The Public Library of Science, February 2004.


 * Scholastica
 * The Open Access Journal Starter Kit, eBook, 2014.
 * The Journal Editor's Definitive Guide to Digital Publishing (2nd Edition).


 * Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC):
 * Getting your journal indexed. Continuously updated.
 * Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index. Launched May 26, 2011.  Continuously updated.
 * Transitioning Your Journal from Subscription to Open Access, undated.
 * Sheridan Brown, Publishing an Open Access Journal, January 2016 (archived April 2016).


 * Lorna Shapiro, Establishing and Publishing an Online Peer-reviewed Journal: Action Plan, Resourcing, and Costs, Public Knowledge Project, 2005.


 * David J. Solomon, Developing Open Access Journals: A Practical Guide, Chandos Publishing, February 2008. This is a priced, printed book. An abridged OA edition is available. Also see the companion set of annotated links to resources for open access projects. The author [mailto:dsolomon@msu.edu welcomes suggestions] and will try to update this regularly.


 * David J. Solomon and Caroline Sutton, Workshops on Creating Open Access Journals, 2008-2009.


 * SQW Ltd., Costs and business models in scientific research publishing, Wellcome Trust, April 2004.


 * Kevin Stranack, Getting Found, Staying Found, Increasing Impact: Enhancing Readership and Preserving Content for OJS Journals, Public Knowledge Project, 2006.


 * Kevin Stranack, Starting a New Scholarly Journal in Africa, Public Knowledge Project, 2008.


 * Caroline Sutton (project manager), Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing, Co-Action Publishing and the Lund University Library, January 2010.


 * Jan Velterop, Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies, Open Society Institute, July 2005.