Journal Support Tools Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing (a.k.a Best Practices Guide) Caroline Sutton Publisher Nordic Scientific and Scholarly Journal Publishing- interesting times 25 November 2009, Uppsala

 Established as Swedish AB in 2007  Jan began publishing first journal in our portfolio  Sept Founding Member Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA  April 2009 Launched OpenAccessSolutions.com together with Datapage and T-marketing  Sept Elected President of OASPA  Currently staffed by founding partners, soon to add to staff in 2010 A bit about Co-Action Publishing

Portfolio 2008 Ethics & Global Politics Food & Nutrition Research Global Health Action 2009 Journal of Oral Microbiology Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 2010 Journal of Organic Agriculture Libyan Journal of Medicine Medical Education Online Nano Reviews Vulnerable Groups & Inclusion Books Drug Acceptor Interactions From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence...and possibly a few others

Creating the Online Guide to OA Journal Publishing

Business Plan Funding Setting up the journal Launch Content Creation Content Acquisition & development Quality Control Typesetting & Coding Copy-EditingProofreadingDesign Printing & Binding Warehousing & Distribution Online Hosting & Distribution Sales & Marketing Readers/ Consumers

Business PlanFunding Setting up the journal LaunchContent Creation Content Acquisition & development Quality Control Typesetting & Coding Copy-Editing ProofreadingDesignPrinting & Binding Warehousing & Distribution Online Hosting & Distribution Sales & Marketing Readers/ Consumers PreservationChoose a partner To start a journal?Type of journalStaffing strategyEditorial team Recruitinig an editorial board Measuring impactvisibilitypoliciesAuthor guidelines Aims & scopeChoose a name Copyriight and licensing workflowsLayout and designPeer review policydomainsarchivingNordic funding Resource and financial issues Contracts ISSN database registrating Formal registrationsFigures & tables Handling different types of materials incl supplemental Handling different types of material Issues/volumes/Publlishing systems IndexwebsiteOASPA Measuring impact/statistics Business systemLaunch planGetting started Working with libfraries Generating submissions standardssLegal frameworkbackup Institutional OA policies Libraries Journal support in Nordic libraries Tagging & metadataWeb2 tools Versions of paper (html, PDF, xml)

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Business PlanFunding Setting up the journal LaunchContent Creation Content Acquisition & development Quality Control Typesetting & Coding Copy-Editing ProofreadingDesignPrinting & Binding Warehousing & Distribution Online Hosting & Distribution Sales & Marketing Readers/ Consumers PreservationChoose a partner To start a journal?Type of journalStaffing strategyEditorial team Recruitinig an editorial board Measuring impactvisibilitypoliciesAuthor guidelines Aims & scopeChoose a name Copyriight and licensing workflowsLayout and designPeer review policydomainsarchivingNordic funding Resource and financial issues Contracts ISSN database registrating Formal registrationsFigures & tables Handling different types of materials incl supplemental Handling different types of material Issues/volumes/Publlishing systems IndexwebsiteOASPA Measuring impact/statistics Business systemLaunch planGetting started Working with libfraries Generating submissions standardssLegal frameworkbackup Institutional OA policies Libraries Journal support in Nordic libraries Tagging & metadataWeb2 tools Versions of paper (html, PDF, xml)

Thinking of Publishing as a System

Basic structure of IDEFØ ACTIVITY e.g. Publish a journal INPUTS OUTPUTS CONTROL MECHANISMS MECHANISM (usually people or suppliers, but also facilities (e.g. hosting)

Two Processes  Peer review  Production

Planning for launching and operating an OA journal  Think in terms of activities – what needs to be done?  Consider how it relates to other activities you need to perform – do other activities provide inputs or controls? Are the outputs from the activity in question inputs for other activities?  What do you need to get the job done?  How (who and/or with what system) will you get the job done?  What controls will structure what you can/should do?

Bo Christer Björk’s work Other uses of IDEFØ in publishing

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