Infrastructure

Many open access journals run on open source software. This software is freely available online and needs to be installed on a suitable server to

A journal’s website, called the front-end, is where authors and readers will make first contact. It is important to make sure that the website is

Metadata is data that provides information about other data. In scholarly publishing, metadata refers to structured information that describes the attributes of an article, including

Structured content is information or data that is organised in a predictable way. There are various formats for structured content, the most notable are XML

As research has moved from predominantly paper based to predominantly digital, the ways in which outputs are found, cited and archived have changed. Internet searches