Presentation at Open Access Week 20 October 2010, UNISA and Stellenbosch University

1. Open Access Scholarly Publishing The AOSIS journey Pierre JT de Villiers Managing Director: OpenJournals Publishing African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS) Pty Ltd

3. How I became involved in Open Access

6. 2005

8. Open Journal Systems (OJS) 6600 titles (July 2010) 2001 - Open source Software

10. SAFP on the charts

11. SAFP cities Oct 2010 10,000 visitors per month

12. The AOSIS Journey

13. E-Learning services www.ituta.net www.ecpd.co.za Est. 1999

14. Need: Services for OA journals

15. OJS Est. 2007

16. Editor Reject Section Editor Reject External Reviewer External Reviewer External Reviewer Reviewer’s Recommendation Editorial Recommendation Publish Author

17. OJP Production Flow Manuscript uploaded on system Peer review (2 reviewers) Copyediting (3 steps) Layout editing Proofreading (3 steps) Publication (immediate)

19. Title growth 3 7 10

20. Manuscript growth Submitted v/s published manuscripts

24. Coversion to OA is slow (but sure)

26. OA per discipline - 2009 Bo-Christer Björk et al, PloS One, June 2010

29. Author side publication fees (page fees) feasible in RSA

34. Impact factors/prestige factor

37. Science research papers 2001

39. The key……is OA [email_address]