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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.
• There are also discipline-specific groups, such as CELxJ and LIS-Editors.

Working with us

• Choosing a Publishing Model
• 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
• Harvesting of metadata through OAI-PMH

Resource guides

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

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