COAR’s October 2022 interview of Psicológica journal lead Pandelis Perakakis includes a step-by-step breakdown of that journal’s low-cost, replicable editorial workflow.
Psicológica is a ‘do it yourself’ overlay journal with content hosted on the Spanish National Repository, Digital.CSIC.
The Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology moved their journal, Psicológica, from a traditional model to an overlay journal model. The editors and board of the journal are committed to a sustainable path for open scholarship and the overlay model reduced the cost of running the journal, enabled them to avoid chagrin authors’ fees (APCs) as well as subscriptions, and ensured they had more editorial control of the journal. In addition, working with the National Repository of Spain meant that if the journal/society were to disappear one day, the content would remain persistent and continue to be preserved over time by the repository.