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Open Publishing Platforms

Open Publishing at Fitchburg State University

The Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library believes that scholarly research and educational materials should be accessible to everyone, everywhere. To support this mission, the Library provides our community with professional-grade open publishing tools.

Our Open Publishing Suite

Pressbooks

  • Best For: Creating open educational resources (OER), interactive textbooks, and digital monographs.
  • About the Platform: Pressbooks is an easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create, edit, and publish professional-quality books.Through Fitchburg State Open Books, faculty and students can create accessible textbooks and student anthologies. It supports H5P interactive features and allows you to easily clone and adapt existing open books from the PressBooks Directory

Omeka.net

  • Best For: Creating and displaying digital exhibitions
  • About the Platform: Omeka is your ideal platform for work that relies heavily on visual media, historical artifacts, or physical archives. Faculty and students can organize digital items (such as photographs, letters, audio, and video) with rich metadata and arrange them into a narrative-driven online exhibits.

Open Journal Systems (OJS)

  • Best For: Publishing independent, peer-reviewed open-access journals.
  • About the Platform: OJS is a comprehensive journal management and publishing system. It handles the entire editorial workflow from start to finish—including online article submissions, managing blind peer-review rounds, editing, and final publication. 

FalconWorks

In addition to our open publishing platforms, the library is proud to host FalconWorks, Fitchburg State University’s institutional repository.

  • What it is: FalconWorks is our centralized, permanent digital archive that preserves and showcases the scholarly and creative activity created by members of the Fitchburg State community.
  • Why it matters: Works submitted to FalconWorks are given a permanent URL and are highly discoverable by global search engines (like Google Scholar). 
  • Learn more about FalconWorks submission guidelines. 

Get Started Today

Need help deciding which platform is right for your project? Want to set up an account or schedule a training session?  The Library is here to support you at every step of your publishing journey, from layout design to navigating Creative Commons licensing. Contact Connie Strittmatter, Strategic Projects Librarian or your Departmental Liaison to get started.