Open Hosting Service | External Partners

We offer a journal and book hosting service to external organisations and institutions.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Open Hosting External Partner's Service! We are part of a vibrant community of academics, researchers, students and librarians who all champion Open Access publishing and Open-Source software. 

This site contains all the information you need about the service, as well as about launching your own publishing initiative.

For more information or queries, please contact the Open Hosting team at open.hosting@ed.ac.uk.

About the Service

Using Open Source software, Edinburgh University Library offers book and journal hosting to external organisations and institutions.

For journals, the Library uses Open Journal Systems (OJS). For books, the Library uses Open Monograph Press (OMP). OJS and OMP are web-based content management systems and publishing platforms. They can be used either to manage the full editorial workflow, including submission and peer review, or just for publishing online. Using OJS and OMP requires minimal technical expertise. 

The service is provided at cost, without profit margin or contingency for commercial performance claims. The service will therefore be provided on a best endeavours basis. We guarantee that the service will never be bought out by a commercial enterprise.

Criteria

In order to be eligible to use the service, you must publish under a Diamond Open Access model. You must also meet one of the following criteria:

  • have a strong connection to Scotland, the University of Edinburgh or city of Edinburgh where there is a recognised benefit to the University or society as a whole in making the content openly available.
  • OR publish in the field of librarianship, information management, research data management, open access etc which supports the work of professional services in higher education.
  • OR University of Edinburgh staff have been long standing members of the editorial board.

The Open Hosting service is managed by a small team. As such, we reserve the right to decline new partnership applications in order to ensure our existing service is robust and well resourced.

Costs

The current cost of the service is £2,160 + 20% VAT per annum. This includes all the services outlined within the scope of the service. Additional work outwith this scope is charged at £350 per day. 

Service Governance

The service is hosted, supported and managed by Edinburgh University Library.

Our Partners

We are proud to work with the following partners:

Scope of Service

Below sets out what the Open Hosting External Partner's Service includes and doesn't include.

Service Inclusions:

 Service Exclusions:

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