Janeway

Open Library of Humanities
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

About

Launched: 2017
Record Updated: May 16, 2024
Publishing system
Janeway is an open source publishing platform developed by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) at Birkbeck, University of London, to support the goals of the OLH, and other open access academic publishers.

Mission

Janeway aims to offer a flexible solution for library publishers, scholarly societies, and independent journals.

Key Achievements

The Janeway team have been working with Educopia, CDL and UNC on the Next Generation Library Publishing project. Specifically we have worked on features enabling users to run Janeway in headless mode (without a public website) and linking Janeway to Meru (unified display layer).

The team also continues to work with CDL on eScholarship, onto which journals have started migrating. We've also worked together to develop the Janeway repository system which is now in active use, primarily hosting Preprint servers (https://eartharxiv.org/, https://ecoevorxiv.org/, https://preprints.inggrid.org/).

Although compared to other open source platforms we're considered niche and very much humanities based we've welcomed quite a few new partners in the last year including various organisations who are running Janeway themselves (CMU, CDL, Sissa Media Lab, TU Vien) and for whom we providing hosing (including: UMass Amherst, University of Gent, University of Iowa, Aperio Press)

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented

Technical Documentation

Implemented

Code License

Implemented

Open API

Implemented

Open Product Roadmap

Implemented

Technical Attribute Statements

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

  • GNU General Public License (GPL)

Content Licensing

Content licenseing is decided by the service user. All OLH developed/delivered/derived content is openly licensed.

Standards

Hosting Options

  • Through solution only

Integrations

  • Crossref
  • Datacite
  • CLOCKSS
  • Portico
  • DOAJ
  • Library of Congress
  • Google Scholar
  • ORCID
  • Any tool that allows JATS deposit via S/FTP
  • Community Engagement

    Code of Conduct

    Implemented

    Community Engagement

    In Progress

    Community Statements

    User Contribution Pathways

    • Contribute to code
    • Contribute to documentation

    More About Community Engagement

    Community Engagement Activities:

    We are planning to complete a POSI evaluation.

    Policies & Governance

    Governance Summary

    Janeway is a not for profit making organization, developed at the Centre for Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Open Library of Humanities, UK. For more on Birkbeck's governance, click here. Additional governance development is in progress.

    Policies

    Commitment to Equity & Inclusion

    Implemented

    Privacy Policy

    Implemented

    Web Accessibility Statement

    Implemented
    Applies to Website

    Governance Records

    In Progress

    Governance Structure & Processes

    In Progress

    Transparent Pricing and Cost Expectations

    Implemented

    Policy Statements

    Board Structure

    • Advisory board or steering committee

    Community Governance

    • Ad hoc

    Additional Information

    Organizational History

    Janeway was founded by Martin Eve and Andy Byers at the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), a charity registered in the United Kingdom. As all staff were employed by Birkbeck, University of London and the charitable goals of both organisations were similiar it was decided that in 2021 OLH should merge with Birkbeck.

    Organizational Structure

    Business or Ownership Model

    Fiscal sponsorship (academic institution)

    Current Affiliations

    • Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London.

    Funding

    Primary Funding Source

    • Program service revenue

    Funding Needs

    Janeway is part funded by the Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London and through commercial hosting agreements. Any additional funding will be used to continue the development of Janeway including:


    • Work on accessibility
    • Internationalisation
    • Expansion of Janeway to provide an easy to use Institutional Repository system