How to build engaged OA journal communities: editors share advice part 1

"Open Access Week 2024 is here! This year’s theme, “Community Over Commercialization,” carried over from 2023, is an opportunity to continue conversations about how to advance open scholarship initiatives that serve the best interests of academia and the wider public. Of course, the key to cultivating such community-centric scholarly communication approaches is community building!

At Scholastica, we have the privilege of working with many academic organizations using our software and services to publish fully OA journals that have and continue to include a broad range of community stakeholders in all aspects of their publication development processes. To help others working to do the same this OA Week, we invited some of those users to respond to the question: 'What steps have you taken to engage stakeholders in your journal development process to build a community following, and what advice would you give others looking to do the same?' "