The UOC offers a comprehensive support service for the editorial teams of the UOC's academic journals, in line with the Institutional Protocol for Scholar Journals and the management model agreed by our Publications Committee (November 2015).
We offer our teaching staff support in the publishing and management of scientific and general interest journals, helping them to establish a strategy, publishing policies, management models, publication formats, quality standards, and article indexing and dissemination plans, and to monitor activity indicators.
The UOC's scientific journals in figures
We show you the impact, visibility and activity data of the UOC’s scientific journals.
Strategies for journals
This service provides tools, training and guidance in publishing policies to ensure the ongoing improvement of academic journals through:
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Follow-ups on the journals’ action plans.
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Compliance with the criteria set out in the quality plan for academic journals.and in the quality plan for general-interest journals.
- Organizing training sessions and seminars to keep up to date with new developments in the field of academic publications.
Editorial management of journals
The aim of this service is to ensure the final quality of the published product. Support is provided in the two principal stages of a scientific journal: management and coordination of the peer-review process, and editorial production.
Visibility and impact of journals
We offer a bespoke advisory service to help maximize visibility of the UOC’s open access scientific journals and the articles that they publish. We provide support in two key areas:
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Indexing: The execution of an indexing strategy in line with our wider indexing plan, enabling a road map to be created to improve positioning in national and international impact indexes, specialist databases, repositories and academic social media.
- Visibility: The support to establish a communication plan for each academic journal and to provide recommendations on the use of social media to improve presence and interaction with each journal’s community of followers.
UOC Scientific Publishing Seminar
The Scientific Publishing Seminar was launched to encourage interactions and reflection among the editorial teams of the UOC's academic journals. Since 2017 it has been held twice-yearly, each time with a central theme and one or two speakers.
The past topics have included alt-metrics, scientific dissemination, the peer review process, publication ethics, journals' visibility, and open access publishing. Here you can see our reports on past seminars:
Support tools and materials
In line with the aims of the services set out above, we offer the following support materials produced by the Library: