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Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide
- Created on Thursday, 19 July 2012 16:15
Martin Paul Eve, doctoral researcher in the department of English at the University of Sussex, Great Britain posted an excellent five-part guide for starting an open access journal on his blog. He designed the guide for [humanities] academics who want to establish their own journals that are:
- Peer reviewed, in a traditional pre-review model
- Open Access and free in monetary terms for authors and readers
- Preserved, safe and archived in the event of catastrophe or fold
- Reputable: run by consensus of leaders in a field
The guide covers, in more or less checklist fashion, the budgetary, technical and social groundwork essential to get an open access journal off on the right foot.