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Online self-publishing program now up for IUPUI
Katie Bradley
Issue date: 11/28/07 Section: College News
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IUPUI professors now have the option to self-publish their journals via an Internet program that some people believe will revolutionize how universities provide scholarly journals to their faculty and students.
The program, Open Journal Systems (OJS), allows professors and students to create and manage their journals online. It comes to IUPUI during a time of stagnant budgets and a hunt for alternatives to mainstream, expensive journals.
"It (OJS) is up now," Kristi Palmer, an assistant librarian who has installed the program on campus, said. "We have two professors who have expressed interest in making journals."
Those professors work in the schools of Social Work and Bio-Medical Engineering, Palmer said. Although they have expressed interest, they have not begun creating journals.
OJS is federally funded through the Public Knowledge Project, a research initiative from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. PKP offers the journal software for free.
"The more libraries and other larger institutions that get onboard and start supporting it, the more open access," said Palmer.
Open access means students can view the journal's full text for free online. Students can query researchers' names on an Internet search engine to read the articles.
"Open access will start to change the way that we do research," Palmer said.
The program, Open Journal Systems (OJS), allows professors and students to create and manage their journals online. It comes to IUPUI during a time of stagnant budgets and a hunt for alternatives to mainstream, expensive journals.
"It (OJS) is up now," Kristi Palmer, an assistant librarian who has installed the program on campus, said. "We have two professors who have expressed interest in making journals."
Those professors work in the schools of Social Work and Bio-Medical Engineering, Palmer said. Although they have expressed interest, they have not begun creating journals.
OJS is federally funded through the Public Knowledge Project, a research initiative from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. PKP offers the journal software for free.
"The more libraries and other larger institutions that get onboard and start supporting it, the more open access," said Palmer.
Open access means students can view the journal's full text for free online. Students can query researchers' names on an Internet search engine to read the articles.
"Open access will start to change the way that we do research," Palmer said.
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