journal support tools online guide to open access journals publishing (a.k.a best practices guide)...

Journal Support ToolsOnline Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing(a.k.a Best Practices Guide)

Caroline SuttonPublisher

Nordic Scientific and Scholarly Journal Publishing- interesting times

25 November 2009, Uppsala

Established as Swedish AB in 2007

Jan. 2008 began publishing first journal in our portfolio

Sept. 2008 Founding Member Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA

April 2009 Launched OpenAccessSolutions.com together with Datapage and T-marketing

Sept. 2009 Elected President of OASPA

Currently staffed by founding partners, soon to add to staff in 2010

A bit about Co-Action Publishing

Portfolio2008

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

www.OpenAccessSolutions.com

Creating theOnline Guide to OA Journal Publishing

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Thinking of Publishing as a System

Basic structure of IDEFØ

ACTIVITYe.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

http://www.sciencemodel.net/

Other uses of IDEFØ in publishing

Sneak Preview of Online Guide to

OA Journal Publishing

THANK YOU!

Caroline.Sutton@co-action.net