Creation and Distribution of an Open-Access e-Journal

Editor's Notes

• #7: SLIS co-sponsors the prestigious Kay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, an internationally-recognized collection of primary-source materials related to children’s literature. http://www.usm.edu/bookfest/
• #8: One of the courses offered through the Southern Miss British Studies Program is LIS 580/587, British Libraries and Information Centers, a 6 credit-hour course. In summer 2010, 32 students from 17 different universities across the U.S. participated in the course, which is based in King’s College, near the South Bank of the Thames in London, and Dalkeith Estate near Edinburgh, Scotland. Distinguished British archivists and information specialists generously shared their knowledge and expertise on the history and preservation of their historic collections via behind-the-scenes guided tours and lectures at repositories such as the British Library Preservation Studio and Sir John Ritblat Gallery, Greenwich Maritime Museum Library, London Library Preservation Department, British National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, National Archives of Scotland, Dunfermline Carnegie Library Special Collections, and King’s College Maughan Library Special Collections. Students had the opportunity to examine some rare, historic treasures at each site, such as three different, original copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio. They learned about the history and content of the collections they visited, about archival conservation and preservation standards and practices, and about efforts to increase public access to primary-source materials through unique digitization initiatives such as British Library’s Turning the Pages virtual exhibit.
• #11: You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, andindicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
• #12: We wanted an ISSN to boost the legitimacy of the journal and for our application with DOAJ
• #13: Aims & Scope The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.
• #14: Aims & Scope The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals. Definitions Open Access Journal: We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access", we support the rights of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory. [1] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess Quality Control: The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included. Research Journal: Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community. Periodical: A serial appearing, or intending to appear, indefinitely at regular intervals and generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.
• #15: example of some of the things that we will check: That the journal's ISSN(s) number(s) is registered at issn.org and matches the application; That the title in the application matches what that registered at issn.org; That the country of the publisher in the application matches that registered at issn.org; That the journal has an editorial board with identifiable members; we will ask for members' contact details as part of the application review process. These will not be made publicly available.
• #16: That the full text of articles is free and immediately available upon publication; That there is no embargo (delay) on the content being made freely available; That the journal's Open Access policy is clearly stated and easily findable on the web site; That the journal executes some form of peer review, that it is clearly stated on the web site and it matches that which is stated in the application form; That the journal is Open Access according to the BOAI definition. By this we mean that the journal's articles have "free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." That if the journal has article processing charges (APCs), they are clearly stated and easily findable on the web site; That if the journal has any other kind of author charges, they are clearly stated and easily findable on the web site; That the language of the full text articles match the language stated in the application.