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Publishing an open access online journal: Medical Education Online

The presentation will present a rationale for and an overview of the process of creating and operating an open access electronic scholarly journal. The presentation will cover issues such as organizing submission and peer review procedures; developing complaint and copyright policies; indexing and archival issues as well as the workload and costs of maintaining a peer‐reviewed electronic journal. The presenter will use Medical Education Online, an open access electronic journal that has been in operation for 10 years, as an example. The goal will be to give attendees and idea of what is involved in developing and maintaining an open access peer reviewed journal in their field of study and why they might consider starting such a journal.