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Florida Online Journals (OJ): Sunshine State Digital Network: Background information

Scholarly Journal Publishing: Florida Online Journals (Florida OJ) is a service for publishing journal content. The software allows for a variety of publishing workflows including prospective authors uploading material, anonymous reviews, and publishing

Sunshine State Digital Network Guidance

The Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN) is the Digital Public Library of America's (DPLA) hub for Florida.  SSDN harvests records from digital libraries around the state and sends them on for display in the DPLA.  You can see Florida's contributions to the DPLA here https://dp.la/search?partner%5B%5D=Sunshine+State+Digital+Network .

In order to apply for participation through the SSDN, fill out the Content Contributor Application here https://sunshinestatedigitalnetwork.wordpress.com/how-to-participate/ for each digital library platform and for each journal in Florida OJ (each journal in Florida OJ has its own OAI-PMH feed).

Metadata guidance for SSDN participation:

  • Articles vs full issues:
    • Regarding Florida OJ specifically, please refer to the DPLA's Collection Development Guidelines at https://pro.dp.la/hubs/collection-development-guidelines .  As of spring 2019, guidelines for Serials state that Serials are generally excluded when metadata is at the issue level, but generally included when metadata is at the journal level.  Guidelines for Scholarly Materials state that, "DPLA is generally interested in adding to the collection materials that have been published or contain textual descriptions of research such as article pre- and post-prints."   Florida OJ provides metadata at the journal article level (assuming you have uploaded a separate file for each article, rather than a single issue-level file).  This would seem to meet the guidelines.  Journals submitting to SSDN are encouraged to write to help@flvc.org and let FLVC know what feedback was received and whether journal content is represented in the DPLA.
  • Copyright statement:
    • SSDN requires a copyright statement.  For instructions on adding this to Florida OJ, please refer to the Copyright page of this libguide. Florida OJ supports adding a standard copyright statement across articles, and support Creative Commons licenses.

Guidance for the SSDN's Content Contributor Application:

  • Question:  Which content management system does your organization use?
    • Answer:  Open Journal Systems
  • Question:  In which format is your metadata available?
    • Answer:  Dublin Core, MARC
  • Question:  Do you have an OAI-PMH endpoint?
    • Answer:  Yes
  • Question:  If yes to the above, what is your OAI-PMH endpoint's address?
  • Question:  What is the public URL to your collections?
    • Answer:  Provide a link to your journal's homepage on Florida OJ.
  • Question:  How many records do you anticipate sharing?
    • Answer:  Count how many published and publicly available articles you have, and provide that number.