LnuOpen
Do you want to start a journal or publish a conference publication? As a researcher at Linnaeus University, you can publish and manage journals and conference publications in LnuOpen, free of charge. The publications will be freely available and searchable in, for example, Google. LnuOpen is based on the open source software Open Journal Systems - OJS. The service is administered by the University Library.
In LnuOpen, the publication gets its own website. Authors have the opportunity to make submissions via the website and the editors can handle all or part of the review and publishing process in the system. By giving each article and conference contribution a unique DOI link, the publications become part of a continuous global research communication. The system enables you to extract statistics, including the number of downloads and visits to the publication. Decisions on new journals in LnuOpen are made by the publishing council for LnuPress. The texts must have been checked for plagiarism through Urkund before they are published
The University Library will assist you with the following:
- Setting up the publication's website and workflows
- Designing Word templates for articles and conferences
- Persistent DOI links
- Design of graphic symbol for the publication
- ISBN and ISSN number
The University Library offers continuous support to the editors, monitors the system's technical development and is responsible for updating to new versions of OJS.
Examples
Journals published in LnuOpen are for example HumaNetten and Meta-Psychology.
Publish your journal
Do you want to start a journal and publish it in LnuOpen? You need to keep the following in mind.
Connection to Linnaeus University
At least one of the editors of the journal must be an employee of Linnaeus University. It is recommendable that more than one editor share the editorial responsibility.
Author instructions
Potential writers need to know how the article should be structured. The instructions should contain for example, information about disposition, reference systems, templates and affiliation. The article's reference list should contain DOI links, if available.
Peer review
Consider how you will handle any peer review process.
Publication schedule
Determine how often the journal should come out, how it should be numbered (volume, number, year) and whether the publication should be periodic or continuous.
To consider before the publication council's decision
When decisions are made by the publishing council to start new journals, the following aspects will be considered:
- Aim and scope?
- Why is the journal needed?
- Discipline or subdiscipline?
- Academic level and/or popular science?
- Journal content (i.e. Theoretical or practice-oriented articles, research articles)?
- International or national audience?
- Strategy for how to receive contributions?
- Funding?
- Journal editors (Who would be the journal's editors? Cooperation, national as well as international, is an advantage. This increases the likelihood of the journal creating an interest and attracting more potential authors from all over the world).
- Who will be responsible for administrative tasks such as technical editing and the editorial process?
Publish your conference publication
Do you want to publish your Book of Abstracts and/or Proceedings in LnuOpen? You need to keep the following in mind.
Connection to Linnaeus University
The conference must be arranged by or in collaboration with Linnaeus University.
Author instructions
Potential writers need to know how the contribution should be structured. The instructions should, for example, contain information about disposition, reference systems, templates and affiliation. The contribution's reference list should contain DOI links, if any.
Peer review
Consider how you will handle any peer review process.
Copyright
In LnuOpen, authors always have copyright to their work. Creative Commons license is strongly recommended.
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
A DOI is a persistent identifier that ensures permanent links to, for example, articles or conference contributions. The University Library assigns the DOI number to your publication.
OJS - Open Journal Systems
LnuOpen is based on the open source software Open Journal Systems.
Contact
Do you want to know more?
researchsupport@lnu.se