The AUC Woodruff Library provides journal editors options for publishing journals on their choice of two platforms:
1. RADAR, the AUC Woodruff Library's institutional repository makes journals accessible to a worldwide audience as well as providing long term preservation. This option is suitable for journals that do not wish to use editorial software for the back end workflow procedures, but want permanent, open access for their journal.
2. Journals @AUC Woodruff Library uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) software to provide public access to completed journal issues, but also supports the entire peer-review and editing process (submission, review, indexing, publishing). This option is ideal for journals that publish regularly and want an efficient means for tracking and managing content.
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source software platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project. OJS is a comprehensive journal management tool and is perfect for building a journal from start to finish. Some of OJS's benefits include:
Interested in starting an open access journal? Please contact Digital Publishing Librarian, Vanesa Evers, to get started!
Historically grounded in artist-activism, and bound by its mission to reclaim the time and space that Black women have been denied, Aunt Chloe—an artistic response to an absence of truth, to any void in the representation of our narratives—is situated at the crux of every social justice movement. We are proud to further the vision of the editors and contributors who curated the journal before us, as we continue to claim and enlarge the spaces within which to create and narrate Black women’s lives.
Journal of Equity in Behavioral Health Therapy
The Journal of Equity in Behavioral Health Therapy is a multidisciplinary, open-access journal that focuses on the needs/strengths of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) therapists and therapists-in-training as they prepare for, or engage in, behavioral health therapy and their needs/strengths as they work to improve access to services and decrease stigma about the services.
Litteratus is the literary journal of the Morehouse College Howard Thurman Honors Program.
Challenge publishes scholarly papers on all issues germane to the African Diaspora. Particular emphasis is placed on African American men, their families, and their communities within this global context. Challenge is an interdisciplinary publication of Morehouse College, housed within the division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Challenge also publishes special issues with papers presented at colloquia, conferences, and invited papers on selected themes. Unsolicited papers related to the themes may also be included in these special issues. This journal is no longer accepting submissions.
Journals can be peer reviewed, non-peer review, literary in nature, or publications that feature student scholarship. Student journals are defined as an academic journal primarily run by students that publishes content by faculty, other students, or the general public. Student journals are managed in collaboration with a faculty member, association or university administration.
Interested in starting an open access journal? The Library has a professional, easy-to-use platform and is eager to assist! Please contact Digital Publishing Librarian, Vanesa Evers, to get started.