Hosting your Journal

Hosted journals pay an annual hosting fee of R35,000 to host their journals on our platform. We work with the OJS journal management and hosting platform, and below is the support given using OJS:

• Uploading or assisting with Journal setup
• Setting up a test site (staging) for the user to test before uploading to live
• Adding test site content and user access
• Adding general editor info, announcements, aims, submission content, etc.
• Uploading archived Issues to OJS
• Uploading individual articles/submissions for future submissions
• Setting up user access and assigning roles
• Providing training on how to upload publications/issues
• Updating general site elements like the header and footer information
• Creating new page tabs for the Journal
• Editing/Adding content, or removing content from the Journal site
• Enabling and testing plugins
• Adding or editing site navigation
• Adding or editing social media links
• Importing or exporting XML from or to OJS 
• Setting up Crossref or DOAJ uploads
• Importing content from previous versions of OJS 
• Supporting the process from author submission to scheduling publication  
• Troubleshooting errors during the publication of issues/articles

Additional Assistance

Page Fees and payment of reviewers

At a fee of R500.00 per article, the UJ Press will manage the page-fee payments for authors on behalf of a journal.

At a fee of R1 000.00 per edition, the UJ Press will manage the payment of all the reviewers used by a journal. The payment to the reviewers will be made from the journal account, not from UJ Press.

ISSN number for a journal

The UJ Press will arrange the ISSN number for a new journal.  There is no charge for this

Copy-editing of a journal

The UJ Press will outsource the copy-editing of a journal edition by sending it to one of the three vetted editors who are on our preferred supplier list. 

The editor they choose to use will bill the journal directly.

Layout of a journal

The OJS system makes the layout of a journal easy  ̶  the journal editor can do it.  If a journal editor requires assistance with the layout of a journal edition, the work can be outsourced to one of the two layout specialists on the UJ Press preferred supplier list.

The layout editor they choose to use will bill the journal directly.

Uploading articles for each edition

The OJS system allows journal editors to upload articles to any edition of their journal. 

If journal editors would like assistance, the UJ Press will upload articles for them at a cost of R500.00 per article. 

If journal editors would like back issues of the journal uploaded to the system, this can be done by the editors themselves or by UJ Press at a cost of R1 000.00 per edition.

Social Media and Marketing

It is very important to ensure that our authors’ work reaches as wide and diverse an audience as possible. One way we support this is by actively engaging on social media across a range of platforms.