Publishing at JMU

JMU Libraries provides publishing opportunities and experiences for JMU students and faculty. JMU Libraries supports a portfolio of platforms and publishing services, and seeks partnerships within JMU and beyond to broaden that portfolio in ways that advance research, creative expression, and learning. Contact a member of the Data & Scholarly Communications department with any questions.

Help with Scholarly Publishing

• Make more confident decisions about copyright and fair use and understand and retain your rights as an author
• Use open licenses to share your work
• Evaluate traditional and open access publishing opportunities
• Avoid publishing scams
• Participate in Scholarly Commons or Aviary, platforms for sharing academic and research outputs from the JMU community

Open Access Funding

Learn more about the open access fund to offset article processing charges that may be associated with making a journal article open access.

Journal Publishing

JMU Libraries publishes a number of influential peer-reviewed journals that have editorial board connections to the university. Please reach out with any questions about starting a journal via our consultation form and select ‘Publishing and Repository Services’.

Journals include the following:

• International Journal on Responsibility ISSN 2576-0955
• The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction ISSN 1533-9440
• James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal
• VA Engage Journal ISSN 2376-7146

All journals

Book Publishing

JMU Libraries supports the Pressbooks platform for monographs. Browse our latest titles and learn more about Pressbooks as an easy-to-use tool for creating online books and interactive course materials. JMU Libraries offers the “EDU version” of Pressbooks, which includes features that support teaching and learning.

Scholarly Commons

JMU Scholarly Commons is an institutional repository for the intellectual output of JMU’s academic and research communities. Its goal is to provide open and stable access to the exemplary work of JMU’s faculty, students and staff.

Content housed in JMU Scholarly Commons can include but is not limited to:

• published or unpublished faculty research articles, presentations, technical reports and working papers;
• open educational resources, instructional material and courseware;
• conference papers and proceedings;
• some forms of multimedia;
• theses and dissertations.

Aviary

Aviary is a hosted platform used by the JMU Libraries to provide streaming access to audiovisual materials from collections held in Special Collections, the JMU Music Library, and other select materials curated by JMU Libraries, including user submissions.

Content housed in Aviary can include but is not limited to:

• Published AV scholarship produced by JMU faculty, students, and staff.
• Creative works and performances by JMU faculty and staff.