About us

Openjournals is an online platform and support team, for publishing scholarly, peer-reviewed journals according to the diamond open access publishing model. We work with university publishers, research institutes, scientific societies and independent editors to enable scientists to self-publish a journal, based on open science principles.

Our goal

Open Science is an important development in the scientific community because it promotes transparency, reliability, accessibility and use of scientific knowledge. Therefore, scientists should be able to publish their work open access without publication costs for the authors. In doing so, the entire publication process should be in the hands of the academic community, so that only scientific quality counts. The Openjournals platform makes this possible.

Openjournals is part of a broad European movement in which national open access publishing infrastructures are developed and managed. In this way, we facilitate the scientific community to take the publication process into its own hands.

What we do

We give editors the tools to organize the editorial process of a journal and to self-publish articles online. Openjournals is hosted by the Humanities Cluster of the KNAW and is funded by NWO, a number of university libraries and by contributions from participating journals. Openjournals makes use of open source OJS software van PKP. Openjournals provides the following services:

Configuration of own website for journal.
Training and advice to editors on how to use Openjournals platform.
Possible migration of already published articles.
Application for DOI registration.
Assistance with registration with DOAJ, and possibly other indexing services.
Upgrades, maintenance and functional extensions of platform.
Helpdesk
We also provide regular webinars for editors and organize a user day every year.

For whom

We work with (university) publishers, academic organizations, professional associations and independent editors who want to edit and publish a journal themselves. Journals on Openjournals must meet the following criteria:

Editors apply a clearly defined peer-review process.
All articles are open access immediately upon publication; articles are freely readable by anyone.
Authors retain copyright.
Articles are published under a creative commons license (CC BY 4.0).
Authors are not charged publication fees (APCs).
Meet the quality criteria of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Partners