Introducing the Open Access Journal Canvas › Hybrid Publishing Lab Notepad

"A while back we published the infographic 'How to Start an Open Access Journal' on this blog. Drawing on existing research on Open Access journals and the experiences we gained in the Hybrid Publishing Lab we originally assembled the poster for a workshop with a group of scholars interested in starting their own Open Access journal. Recently my colleague Andreas Kirchner and I have been conducting another workshop with doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen on the same topic. We took this occasion as an opportunity to create an 'Open Access Journal Canvas' (PDF) which supplements the poster.  The 'Open Access Journal Canvas' serves as a template that individuals and groups who are interested in setting up such a journal can use to sketch out ideas and to refine their concept. It consists of eight sections in which different questions pertinent to starting and running an Open Access journal are raised: Scope + Mission, Content, Workflows, Distribution, People, Licensing + Financing, Costs, and Getting Started ..."