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Contents 1 Getting Started 2 Working with us 3 Resource guides 4 Policies

Getting Started

General Planning

• SPARC provides an Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index containing advice on new journal planning, governance and editorial issues, marketing and promotion, and more.
• Case Study on the Development of the International Journal of Exercise Science: "This document is a summary case study on the origination, development, marketing and on-going management of this unique research journal."

Business Models and Associated Costs

• The SPARC Consulting Group provides guidance on business models to learned societies and other nonprofit organizations that want to make a switch to open access.
• Common rates for editing, fact checking, indexing, layout, proofreading, and more.

Copyright and Licensing

• Obtaining Copyright Permissions – This gives advice to an author or editor determining whether permission is required and how to obtain permission to use part or all of a copyrighted work in one's work.

Policies and Ethics

• The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) provides a range of useful tools for journal editors and writers.

Indexing

• Overview of Journal Indexes and Aggregators

Marketing

• Michigan Publishing Marketing Guide

Associations

• Editors of journals might consider joining the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for advice and support from other journal editors, plus venues for advertising journals related to modern languages and literature.
• There are also discipline-specific groups, such as CELxJ and LIS-Editors.

Working with us

• Print-on-demand publishing through CreateSpace
• Publishing Agreements (reflects historical, not current, practice)
• Managing submissions and peer review
• Guidelines for Publishing Partners for how to provide content to Michigan Publishing
  • Creating downloadable PDFs
  • Inserting DOIs into bibliographic references
• Usage Statistics
• Rapid Typesetting Service
• DISQUS Commenting Feature
• Hypothes.is Sentence-Level Commenting and Annotation Feature
• Harvesting of metadata through OAI-PMH

Resource guides

• Guide to Publishing Resources at the University of Michigan
• EPUB Conversion Guidelines

Policies

• Access and Usage Policy for Michigan Publishing publications
• Digital Preservation
  • What is Digital Preservation?
  • Internal Resources – these guides were produced by U-M staff
  • External Resources – these guides were produced by trusted authorities outside of U-M
• Notification of Server Outages