Liverpool John Moores University

LJMU Library

Academic Library · United Kingdom

• https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/
• openjournals@ljmu.ac.uk

LJMU Open Journals Service

https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/

Cath Dishman
Email: c.l.dishman@ljmu.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
This is a service hosting open access academic journals for LJMU. The service supports multiple journals (listed below) and is available for LJMU researchers to develop formal peer-reviewed academic research journals, and for LJMU students to develop journal projects exploring themes and techniques in electronic publishing.

• Publishing activities began: 2016
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 0.5
• Individual people: 1
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Journals

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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