Last year the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) moved its Open Access journal 'LIBER Quarterly' to the OJS-platform run by Igitur, and we were confronted by the same problem. Fortunately, OJS offers an option that reconciles the advantages of both systems: - Upon acceptance and termination of the layout, each article is added to the "Future" section, where it is immediately accessible to the readers in an html-format. - Whenever a reasonable number of articles is present in this section, the editor can decide to publish them in a new issue (in pdf-format). Editors can add a short editorial, and interested readers and LIBER members receive at that moment an e-mail announcing the new issue.
Raf Dekeyser LIBER Quaterly managing editor Op 18/09/2012 22:39, Omega Alpha | Open Access schreef: > What is the better online journal format: periodical issues or open annual > volumes? > http://wp.me/p20y83-rZ > > The other day I received an email from Geoffrey Moore, the new editor of the > journal Doxology: A Journal of Worship. Last year, this long-running journal > (founded in 1984 by The Order of Saint Luke) converted from print to online, > and from subscription-based access to open access. I'm always very interested > in reporting on stories like this because it speaks encouragingly to > increased awareness and momentum in favor of open access, even among > established journals. I am preparing a profile of Doxology for an upcoming > post. > > In this post I thought it would be of interest to share my response to a > question posed by Geoffrey. He was wondering about the best format for > Doxology as it continues to move forward as an online open access journal. > They could stay with the "traditional" mode of publishing discrete issues on > a periodic basis (quarterly, bi-annually, annual, etc.), with each issue > containing roughly the same amount of editorial, article, and review content > (the print Doxology was published as an annual); or they could adopt an open > annual volume format, with no fixed published quantity and new content > continually added throughout the year as it becomes available (and passes the > review process). … > > Gary F. Daught > Omega Alpha | Open Access > Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology > http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com > oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
