UC San Diego Journal Editor Resources: Home

Scholarly Communications Services at the UC San Diego Library supports new, as well as experienced editors in the publication of quality, visible, and impactful open access journals.

Please see the UC San Diego Journal Editor Resources guide for more information or contact scholcomm [at] ucsd [dot] edu for a consultation.

COPE Publication Ethics : Principles of Transparency

The guide is based quality indicators, principles of transparency, and best practices in scholarly publishing.

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, https://publicationethics.org)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, https://doaj.org)

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA, https://oaspa.org)

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME, http://www.wame.org)

Contact scholcomm[at]ucsd[dot]edu for support.

See eScholarship documentation on:

• Starting a new journal on eScholarship
• Managing eScholarship journals

Examples of OA Texbooks

• Blueprint for Success in College and Career on Reebus Press
• 3D Genome Textbook
  CC-BY-NC 4.0 Xingzhao Wen and Sheng Zhong on GitBooks with publishing support (cataloging, indexing, bibliographic advice) from UC San Diego Library Scholarly Communications.

Calendar coming soon!

Workshop for Editors

• What does it take to become a quality open access journal?
• Learn what it takes to start a new journal or "flip" an existing one.
  • Quality indicators and options
  • Available publishing platforms
  • New and existing peer review models 
  • Business models
  • Impact metrics and Indexers

Image credit: Tomás Saraceno. Stillness in Motion - Cloud Cities. CC-BY 2.0 Paul Haahr. Accessed on Flickr.​

CONTACT US

• scholcomm@ucsd.edu

KEEP INFORMED

• lib.ucsd.edu/schol-comm
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• UCSD ScholCom YouTube channel
• Open Science Framework repository of workshop materials and recordings