Journal of Open Source Education

The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is an educator-friendly journal for publishing computational learning modules and educational software.

JOSE, pronounced [hoe-zay], is an academic journal (ISSN 2577-3569) and sibling to the Journal of Open Source Software, which publishes open research software. JOSE relies on the journal management infrastructure and tools developed for JOSS. Upon acceptance into JOSE, we mint a CrossRef DOI for your paper and we list it on the JOSE website.

JOSE publishes two types of articles that describe:

• open educational software tools
• open-source learning modules

About this site

This site contains documentation for authors interested in submitting to JOSE, reviewers who have generously volunteered their time to review submissions, and editors who manage the JOSE editorial process.

If you’re interested in learning more about JOSE, you might want to read:

• The about page on the main JOSE site

Submitting a paper to JOSE

If you’d like to submit a paper to JOSE, please read the author submission guidelines in the Submitting a paper to JOSE section.

Sponsors and affiliates

JOSE is a proud affiliate of the Open Source Initiative. As such, we are committed to public support for open source software and the role OSI plays therein. In addition, Open Journals (the parent entity behind JOSE) is a NumFOCUS-sponsored project.

Author and Reviewer Guides

• Submitting a paper to JOSE
  • The two submission types
  • Submission requirements
  • What about novelty?
  • How to prepare a software submission?
  • How to prepare a learning-module submission?
  • What should my paper contain?
  • Example paper and bibliography
  • Submitting your paper
  • No submission fees
  • Preprint Policy
  • Authorship
  • Submissions using proprietary languages/dev environments
  • The review process
• Reviewing for JOSE
  • JOSE review principles
  • JOSE Conflict of Interest Policy
  • JOSE aim and scope
• Review criteria
  • The JOSE paper
  • Submission requirements
    • License
    • Statement of need
    • Community guidelines
    • Specific requirements for software submissions
    • Specific requirements for learning modules
  • Other considerations
    • Authorship
    • What happens if the submission I’m reviewing doesn’t meet the JOSE criteria?
• Review checklist
  • Conflict of interest
  • Code of Conduct
  • General checks
  • Documentation
  • Pedagogy / Instructional design (Work-in-progress: reviewers, please comment!)
  • JOSE paper

Editor Guides

• Editorial Guide
  • Pre-review
  • Review
  • After acceptance
  • Sample letter to invite reviewers
  • Overview of editorial process
  • Visualization of editorial flow
  • Expectations on JOSE editors
  • Out of office

The Editorial Bot

• Interacting with EditorialBot
  • Author and reviewers commands
  • Reviewers checklist command
  • Editorial commands
  • EiC-only commands
  • The complete list of available commands

Developer Guides

• Installing the JOSE application