UCL Press

Student Journal Hosting

UCL offers a free service to UCL students who wish to run an open access journal. This service is managed by UCL Press, which provides the tools for students to independently manage and publish a fully open access journal, free of charge.

The programme currently comprises nine student journals which cover a wide range of subjects, from archaeology (the journal PIA - Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, established in 1990), to law (the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, first published in 2012). You will find the list of journals included in the programme here.

Each student journal is supported by a corresponding UCL faculty, who provide subject specialist support for content and peer review, and by UCL Press who provide on-going publishing support, education about content publication, running and planning a journal publication, and succession planning at the end of the academic year. All student journals are peer-reviewed and the content is licensed under a creative commons CC-BY 4.0 licence. UCL student journals do not charge publication fees.

To read the journal, please click on the logo below.

	Bioscience Horizons Bioscience Horizons is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishing outstanding undergraduate and master’s research in the field of biosciences. The journal produces insightful and original research articles that disseminate bioscience awareness to the general public and contribute to scientific progress. Our submissions come from all around the world.
	Interscript Supporting department: UCL Centre for Publishing A postgraduate journal focusing on publishing that aims to foster international debate on the constantly evolving nature of the publishing industry.
	Moveable Type Supporting department: UCL English The graduate journal of the UCL English department which aims to publish work reflecting the current interests of postgraduate students.
	Object Supporting department: UCL Department of History of Art The postgraduate research journal of the Department of History of Art at UCL, which aims to represent the wide range of historical and theoretical concerns of current research students.
	Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (PIA) Supporting department: UCL Institute of Archaeology A peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes research on all aspects of archaeology, museum studies, cultural heritage and conservation.
	Slovo Supporting department: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies An interdisciplinary academic journal of Russian, Post-Soviet, Central & East European affairs.
	UCL Journal of Economics Supporting department: UCL department of Economics The Economic Tribune has founded a research-focused peer-reviewed journal, the UCL Journal of Economics, alongside its existing magazine-style publication. This allows correspondents at the Tribune, as well as other students within the UCL Department of Economics to create and publish academically rigorous pieces of research.
	UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Supporting department: UCL Laws A law journal publishing scholarly contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, as well as showcasing outstanding research of post-graduate students at UCL.

As part of the innovative Connected Curriculum, UCL encourages all students to make connections with researchers and other students, undertake research activity and create original output. UCL student journals offer students the experience of managing and publishing their work in a credible open access peer reviewed journal, gaining skills that will prove invaluable in their future careers.

If you are a UCL student or faculty member and would like to start a new student journal or migrate an existing journal to become part of the open access student journals programme, please contact Ian Caswell, Journals Manager (i.caswell@ucl.ac.uk) for further information.

Each student journal is managed and produced by UCL postgraduate student editors; these editors are typically in place for one academic year, working to produce a new issue each academic year, followed by new appointed student editors in the next academic year. Each student journal has their own processes to manage handover and should be contacted directly for any further information.

Student editors undertake the creation and publication of open access journals, gaining valuable academic writing, editing and publishing experience, while also achieving greater visibility and impact for their department, their discipline and their own research. It is the task of the student editors to plan, manage, produce and market an issue each academic year for publication.

UCL Press supports student editors by maintaining the Open Journal Systems and provides advice and guidance to student editors on a range of issues, including training in using systems, advising on copyright, ISSN and digital object identifier (DOI) registration, and guidance with succession planning. Each journal is in turn supported by a UCL faculty or department to provide subject expertise and support concerning content and peer review, usually with named academic staff members invited onto the student journals advisory board.

The diagram below shows a model of the editorial and publishing process undertaken by other journals using the OJS system.

All student journal publications are indexed and registered with OpenAIRE – OpenAIRE is an initiative set about by the European Commission to substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data. See the following link for more information: https://www.openaire.eu/search/dataprovider?datasourceId=openaire____::aba779ee09afb6957e5966853683cdef&lang=en