Open Acess Resources for Editors
Editors considering moving to a business model that allows for open access may wish to seek the guidance of one or more of the following:
- SPARC (see transitioning your journal from subscription to open access)
- Transitioning Society Publications to Open Access (TSPOA)
- Other open-access journals in the same discipline (see Society Publishers with Open Access Journals, maintained by SOAR)
- UNT Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services (please contact us).
Diversifying your Press
- #PublishingSoWhite: 13 Ways to Diversify Your PressStemming from a keynote speech and performance delivered last month in Toronto, artist and author Vivek Shraya details thirteen positive recommendations to publishers looking to diversify their presses. In the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, we'll see that there's work to be done at every step of the way: from acquisitions, to marketing, to simply examining our own existing biases.
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General resources for editors of journals and book series
- Becoming an Editor – This tutorial from the PKP School "is designed to help you become a successful editor of a scholarly journal. Whether you are starting your own journal or taking on the responsibility for an existing journal, you’ll find all of the basics covered in this course, as well as pointers toward more advanced topics."
- Services for editors based at UNT
- Council of Editors of Learned Journals – This membership organization provides advice and support from other journal editors, plus venues for advertising journals relating to modern languages and literature. See also these discipline-specific groups:
- Linguistics: Committee of Editors of Linguistics Journals (CELxJ)
- Library and information science: Library & Information Science Editors
- Medicine: World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)
- Social sciences: Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI)
- Sciences: Council of Science Editors
- Sample Correspondence for an Editorial Office – Offers boilerplate letters to authors provided by the Council of Science Editors
Saving snapshots of web resources you cite
- Perma.cc allows an author or editor to take a snapshot of a Web resource and cite that snapshot instead of its original URL.
- You can have the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine take a snapshot on demand through Save Page Now.
- You can use the Robust Links tool to take a snapshot in a web archive in a way that the link will fall back to another web archive if the first one is unavailable.
Publication ethics
- The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) provides “a range of useful tools for journal editors and writers” related to suspected misconduct in academic publishing. Start with the core practices.
- White Paper on Publication Ethics from the Council of Science Editors
- Increasing transparency of the research process and products – journals can adopt the Guidelines for Transparency and Openness Promotion in Journal Policies and Practices ("the TOP Guidelines") or follow the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing created by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME.
- Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals – "These recommendations are intended primarily for use by authors who might submit their work for publication to ICMJE member journals. Many non-ICMJE journals voluntarily use these recommendations."
- GPP3 – ISMPP published version 3 of the Good Publication Practice guidelines for medical journals, though these have been criticized as inaccurate.
Navigating the usage of other publication contributions
- Requesting permission: What you need to know to request permission to include a work within another work (for example, include an image as a figure or include previously published article as a chapter in your book). For more advice on matters related to copyright, contact UNT Libraries Copyright Advisory Services.
- Open Access Glossary: These are terms that authors might use when corresponding with an editor about their right to reuse their contribution elsewhere.
- Michigan Publishing provides an Overview of Journal Indexes and Aggregators that an editor might seek to have a journal included in.
- Resources for editors on text recycling
Peer review resources
- Best Practices in Peer Review – While this describes the practice for scholarly books, the principles here are useful for other formats of scholarship as well. See also Peer Review Transparency.
- Reviews of journals:
- Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- The Humanities Journal Wiki "document[s] the experiences of working with academic journals in the humanities." It lets you see how authors view your journal or similar journals and what they report as average turn-around times for various parts of the publishing process.
- SciRev allows authors to share their experiences with the peer-review process.