Workshop on Creating and Managing Open Access Journals

August 24, 2010, President Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic

Sponsored by the Open Access Publishers Assocication

This half day workshop is for all scholar/researchers interested in founding new open access journals in their field of study. The target group would include small societies, special interest groups, university departments, libraries and other groups of researcher/scholars who are interested in creating a new open access scholarly journal or enhancing the quality of an existing journal. The list of topics include:

• Determining the scope, name, editorial board and governance structure, review process format/style and layout for the journal
• Developing policies, procedures, and instructions for authors
• Overview of the Open Journal System journal management system
• Estimating the resource requirements for operating the journal and developing a business plan and financing options to address those requirements
• Considerations in developing partnerships with academic libraries, university presses and/or working with professional publishers and other consultants/partners
• Indexing, archiving and dissemination issues in developing a new journal or enhancing access to an existing journal
• Preparing for launching the journal, including obtaining initial content, developing a reviewer pool, marketing and publicizing the journal
• Operating, sustaining and maintaining an OA journal over the long-term

The workshop will consist of short presentations, and small group discussions where attendees can discuss their experiences and plans for creating OA journals with the presenters and other attendees.

The three faculty have a wide range of experience creating, managing and developing sustainable business models for OA journals.