About

Tulane University Journal Publishing at Tulane University Libraries provides an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing service to support scholarly and academic publishing for the Tulane University community.

Benefits of participation include:

  • Public access
  • No cost hosting
  • Speedy publication
  • Long-term storage, digital preservation
  • Discoverability through the TU Library catalogue
  • Authors retain copyright of their work
  • Compliance with Open Access mandates
  • Training and consultation services

Criteria for Inclusion

To be considered for Tulane Open Access Journals, a journal needs to:

  • Have a credible connection with the Tulane University community. Non-Tulane journals may publish if there is a Tulane representative on the journal's board.
  • Be fully accessible in compliance with Open Access standards. It is acceptable to embargo (not make accessible) the most recent issues of a journal for a limited period of time, but the issues present need to be completely available.
  • Be peer-reviewed: you need to have a system of academic peer review in place. This system can be administered through OJS (the publishing platform we use), or you can use your own system and only publish the results of your process through OJS.

How To Publish

  • Familiarize yourself with the journals already published here to see if the platform is a good fit for your needs.
  • Review the Guide Publish An Open Access Journal to learn about our publishing platform OJS and the options it offers.
  • Contact Tulane University Libraries' Digital Initiatives at [email protected]. We ask prospective publishers to complete a "Memorandum of Understanding" before we begin our collaboration and will then create the journal in OJS and supply you with editor accounts as needed. 

Tulane University Journal Publishing Open Access Policy

Publisher Responsibilities
Tulane University Journal Publishing (TUJP) offers a publishing platform and consultation services for open access journals. Each journal published by TUJP is managed independently, with separate publishing policies and criteria determined by each journal’s editorial board. Tulane University Journal Publishing only requires that every journal follow the appropriate peer review standards for the discipline and type of journal to be published, that at least one member of the journal’s editorial board be affiliated with Tulane University, and that the journal be published in agreement with this open access policy.

Copyright and Authors’ Rights
Under this policy, authors retain full copyright ownership of their works while granting TUJP permission to make their articles freely available in an open access platform.

To assist TUJP in preserving and disseminating scholarly articles, authors grant the university non-exclusive permission to archive, preserve, reproduce and openly disseminate, in any medium, all scholarly works authored by them, provided that the articles are properly attributed to the authors, and that it is done for non-commercial purposes. Authors maintain full control of their intellectual property and copyright.

Use and Access
The works submitted by authors to journals hosted by Tulane University Journal Publishing are licensed under this Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Older journals are licensed under version 3.0 of the same license: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 US

Tulane University Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Contact: [email protected]

DMCA and Deaccession Policy for Tulane University Libraries' Digital Collections: https://libguides.tulane.edu/digital_policy/dmca_deaccession 

Copyright Notice: https://tulane.edu/copyright-notice