The Small Publisher's Guide to Digitally Driven OA Journal Development

Free eBook: How to publish discoverable, top-quality open access content at any scale

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Are you and your publishing team looking to expand the reach and impacts of your Open Access journals while keeping up with the latest online publishing standards? Or are you launching a new OA journal and wondering where to start?

You've come to the right place! This free eBook covers digitally driven production, hosting, and dissemination best practices that scholarly organizations of any size can follow to take their journal publishing program to the next level sustainably. Learn how to:

  • Leverage Agile principles to make iterative publishing improvements
  • Optimize your journal website for online readers and search engines
  • Expand your article indexing and meet metadata requirements
  • Adopt a digital-first production process to publish more efficiently
  • ​​Establish policies for content and data archiving and stick to them

Plus, you'll get a copy of the Digital Journal Publishing Best Practices Checklist that brings together all of the lessons in this eBook in an actionable worksheet!

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