Scholarly Journal Publishing

Once you have reviewed our Getting Started material, you are ready to work with us to set up your OJS installation. We can set you up with a fresh instance, or help you migrate in content for existing journals.

We also suggest that journal personnel become somewhat familiar with OJS before requesting an installation. PKP School is one of the best ways to do that. 

Steps 1 and 2 must be completed before we can prepare your OJS installation, usually within one business week.

Your main contact will be given a Journal Manager role. That person will thereafter be responsible for assigning all other roles. 

Please note: Only the University of Calgary will have the Site Administration role and file level access to the hosting servers.

If you have not yet requested help from Libraries and Cultural Resources Publishing Hosting Services, request a consultation here: https://ucalgary.libwizard.com/f/journalhosting. 

• ​​​Once you have your OJS installation, you can go ahead and complete the journal setup by following the PKP journal setup guide.
• After you have completed the setup, you have a journal that is ready to go - you can inform your intended audience that you are open for submissions!

If your journal is open access, research Copyright Creative Commons Licensing and choose which one is best for you. Creative Commons Licenses "forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates

For more information, visit our Copyright and Open Licensing Research Guide

• ​​Develop your copyright and author self-archiving policies and register them with Sherpa/Romeo.
  Sherpa/Romeo is a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding copyright and the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories.
• The following links to will give you several examples of possible copyright wording:
  • SPARC Author Addendum
  • MPublishing Model Journal Publishing Agreement Author Copyright