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October 22, 2010
The University of Oregon Libraries and Oregon State University Libraries have joined forces to establish an Open Access Journal Publishing Service that will support the broader dissemination of scholarship and promote the advancement of both universities’ research. Open access journals represent an emerging academic publishing model that makes the results of scholarly research freely available online to all readers who have access to the Internet.
Other benefits of open access journals include increased visibility and distribution of research results to a global audience, improved access to articles by readers outside a given discipline or without access to traditional research channels, fewer publication delays, fewer access restrictions associated with journals run by commercial publishers, and more secure stewardship and archiving of research results.
The initiative will provide support to UO and OSU faculty members for the creation, management, distribution, and preservation of open access journals, primarily based on the Open Journal System (OJS) open source software. In addition to hosting journals on an OJS server, the initiative will assist in the migration of journal content from traditional print format to digital format. The OJS program supports the full cycle of journal publishing from article submission to archiving.
The new service builds on already existing efforts at the two universities to support open access publication of other content using Scholars’ Bank, the UO’s digital repository, and ScholarsArchive@OSU, at Oregon State. Content currently in these repositories includes journal articles, conference proceedings, newsletters, technical report series, and open access monographs.
Plans for creating new open access journal titles are already underway at both universities. For example, at the University of Oregon the first issue of the open access journal Humanist Studies and the Digital Age is expected to appear this winter. The journal will provide scholars and students with free and immediate online access to the results of humanities research conducted by scholars throughout the world. At Oregon State University, the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum is currently offered as an open access publication, and other titles are in the development stages. The website for the service at http://journals.oregondigital.org/ provides additional information on the new program and access to individual journals.
UO faculty members interested in starting an open access journal, moving an existing journal to the OJS system, or publishing articles in open access journals, should contact JQ Johnson, director of Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support at the UO, at jqj@uoregon.edu, 541-346-1746. For open access deposit of other types of content in Scholars’ Bank, such as conference proceedings, technical reports, and monographs, contact Karen Estlund, at kestlund@uoregon.edu, 541-346-1854.
For more information on other support the UO Libraries offers UO faculty members, visit the library’s Scholarly Communications web page at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/.
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