Open Journals

Open Journals is a collection of open source, open access academic journals. According to its official website, it currently has four main publications: the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS), the Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE), the Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, and the (now closed) Journal of Brief Ideas. All of the journals run on open source software maintained under the Open Journals GitHub organization, and all content is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, with copyright remaining with the submitting authors. Open Journals is community-organized and volunteer-led. Each journal has an editor-in-chief who leads it, and the organization has a documented governance structure. It is fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS, a US nonprofit that supports open source scientific computing projects. Wikidata describes Open Journals as an academic publisher based in the United States. Rather than operating as a traditional commercial publisher, Open Journals functions as a lightweight publishing infrastructure and editorial community for open source research and educational software. Its best-known title, JOSS, publishes short papers about research software, while JOSE focuses on open source educational materials and the JuliaCon proceedings archive conference papers from the Julia programming language community. The organization does not sell subscriptions; its journals are free to read and rely on volunteer editors and reviewers.

Open Journals grew out of the open source research software community and is best known for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS), which pioneered a lightweight peer-review model for research software. The organization's official website describes Open Journals as a collection of open source, open access journals and lists four main publications: the Journal of Open Source Software, the Journal of Open Source Education, the Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, and the Journal of Brief Ideas, which is marked as closed. All of the journals run on open source software developed and maintained under the Open Journals GitHub organization, reflecting the organization's commitment to open infrastructure as well as open access. Content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and copyright remains with the submitting authors. Open Journals is community-organized and volunteer-led, with an editor-in-chief leading each journal. It is fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS and has a documented governance structure. Wikidata classifies Open Journals as an academic publisher based in the United States. The organization does not operate as a conventional subscription or article-processing-charge-driven commercial publisher; instead it relies on volunteer editorial labor and nonprofit fiscal sponsorship.

Community-organized, volunteer-led, open source and open access academic publishing infrastructure, fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS.

• Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

  An open access journal publishing short papers about research software, run on open source software.

• Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE)

  An open access journal focused on open source educational materials and software.

• Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences

  Conference proceedings published for the Julia programming language community.

• The Journal of Brief Ideas

  A publication listed by Open Journals as closed.

1. 1Open Journals official websitetheoj.org
2. 2Open Journals on Wikidatawikidata.org