Description:
The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) publishes high-quality peer-reviewed and original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. This wide area entails many intriguing questions and facets, including the special development... Show More
The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) publishes high-quality peer-reviewed and original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. This wide area entails many intriguing questions and facets, including the special development process performed by a large number of geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and also economic and legal issues. Beyond this topic, open source software is an example of a highly distributed innovation process led by the users. Therefore, many aspects have relevance beyond the realm of software and its development. In this tradition, IJOSSP also publishes papers on these topics. IJOSSP is a multi-disciplinary outlet, and welcomes submissions from all relevant fields of research and applying a multitude of research approaches.
Mission & Scope:
The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) publishes high-quality original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. The primary mission is to enhance our understanding of this field and neighbouring areas by providing a focused outlet for rigorous research employing a multitude of approaches.
Coverage:
- Business models for open source and other community-created artifacts
- Case studies of open source projects, their participants and/or their development process
- Characteristics of open source software projects, products, and processes
- Communication and coordination in open source projects
- Customer co-creation and user participation in (software) design
- Economic analyses of open source
- Economics of a distributed innovation process
- Evolution of both open source software artifacts and open source communities
- Implications of open source software for functional areas like public administration or teaching
- Legal issues of open source software
- Motivation of participants in open source projects and other distributed development efforts
- Open science and open knowledge
- Open source adoption and quality
- Open source software development processes
- Usage and adoption of open source software in different application areas and/or countries
- User-centered innovation processes
This journal operates under the Hybrid Open Access model,
allowing the author to choose between traditional, subscription-based publishing, or Open Access publishing.
Subscription-Based Publishing/Green Open Access:
Article manuscripts require no Article Processing Charge (APC) and require authors to transfer the copyright of the
manuscript to IGI Global. Manuscripts are published behind a paywall and must be purchased for use. See the
Fair Use Policy
for sharing allowances conducive to Green Open Access.
Open Access Publishing:
Article manuscripts receive the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of
the article. Others may distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, without asking
prior permission from the publisher or author and so long as they credit the author for the original creation.
A one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) of US $2,000 must be paid AFTER the manuscript has gone
through the full double-blind peer review process and the Editor(s)-in-Chief at his/her/their full discretion
has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. Learn
more about APCs
here.
All inquiries regarding IJOSSP should be directed to the attention of:
All inquiries regarding IJOSSP should be directed to the attention of:Dr. Antonio Pecchia
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes
E-mail:
IJOSSP@igi-global.com or
antonio.pecchia@unina.it