Behavior and Social Issues Now Published by UIC Library
Behavior and Social Issues Now Published by UIC Library
Broadening its efforts in electronic journal publishing, the UIC Library introduces Behavior and Social Issues (BSI) to its publication program. BSI joins First Monday and AIDS Book Review Journal, both also published by the Library. Sponsored by the Behaviorists for Social Responsibility, BSI is edited by Professor Mark A. Mattaini of the UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work.
BSI is the first journal published in UIC’s installation of the open access journal publishing software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), developed by Simon Fraser University.
Full-text of seven volumes of BSI is online, and tables of contents are available from the first issue in 1991. BSI is available now at its new URL: http://www.behaviorandsocialissues.org. BSI’s online issues are available for free; frequent users of the title are encouraged to support the journal by subscribing to the archival paper copy.
OJS not only publishes the issues, but will support electronic submission of articles, tracking and management of the refereeing process, and a variety of user tools, including alerts for new issues and robust searching of the contents. It also links BSI to the Open Archives Initiative, which means that BSI content will be much more widely available, and to the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) project, to assure long-term availability of the electronic content.
“Behaviorists for Social Responsibility and the international editorial board of Behavior and Social Issues are extremely pleased at this opportunity to expand the availability of open access journal publishing, which is critical to access in under-resourced nations and institutions,” noted Professor Mattaini. “Particularly for a journal with a central focus on contributions of behavioral and cultural sciences to social justice and human rights, open access is essential. Open Journal Systems and in particular the responsive support of the UIC Library and ACCC provide a scaffold of stability, access and efficiency for the journal. We truly appreciate this support, and encourage others to become involved in OJS and the open access movement.”
University Librarian Mary M. Case was very pleased that the Library is able to offer this new service, even in these tight budget times. “Partnering with the UIC faculty to promote open access to their scholarly endeavors is a strategic goal of the Library. OJS is the first in a series of tools that the Library and ACCC will be introducing to the campus in support of this goal. We are very excited about Behavior and Social Issues joining our program, and look forward to working with others at UIC.”
The UIC installation of OJS is a joint project of the University Library and the UIC Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC), and will be available in the near future to anyone in the UIC community who edits or manages a scholarly journal. The Library’s effort is being headed by Nancy John, Digital Publishing Librarian, Sandy De Groote, Assistant Health Sciences Librarian (Peoria) and Lisa Wallis, Assistant Information Services Librarian (LHS). Technical support in the Library is being provided by Nancy John, Francis Kayiwa, Library Systems Coordinator, and Ellen Starkman, Library Systems Coordinator. Ted Maas and Bob Goldstein are managing the project for the ACCC. For more information, contact nrj@uic.edu or sgroote@uic.edu.
