Publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS): A Librarian’s Perspective
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Date
2020
Authors
Ndungu, Miriam Wanjiku
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Abstract
The genesis of this paper is a workshop presentation on publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS) that was delivered during the Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium Pre-Annual General Meeting held on May 30, 2019, at the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya. The article lays the context of online hosting of university sponsored journals in Kenya and gives a background of Online Journals Systems. The paper further describes potential roles that librarians can play in institutional journal publishing. The article concludes that librarians possess the requisite skills for participating in scholarly journal publishing and recommends that including publishing literacy skills in information literacy sessions provides an excellent opportunity to showcase librarians’ value in the scholarly journal publishing process.
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Research Article
Keywords
Journal Publishing, JPPS, Libraries as publishing partners, OJS, Online Journal Systems, Practices and Standards, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), scholarly publishing literacy
Citation
Miriam Wanjiku Ndungu (2020) Publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS): A Librarian’s Perspective, Serials Review, DOI: 10.1080/00987913.2020.1732717