Launching and managing an academic journal involves coordinating numerous critical elements, from attracting high-quality submissions and maintaining rigorous editorial standards to achieving indexing and increasing global visibility. Knowledge E provides hands-on, end-to-end journal support, helping journals set up and launch successfully, implement strategies to attract manuscripts, optimise peer review and editorial workflows, and enhance discoverability and long-term impact in the scholarly community.
Complete Support for Journal Excellence
Essential Publishing Services
Included in all publishing packages. KnE handles your journal’s editorial and technical tasks to ensure credibility and discoverability:
- Dedicated editorial team to produce each issue
- Online submission system for managing reviewers, submissions, acceptances
- iThenticate plagiarism checks
- Professional copyediting
- DOI creation & registration
- Archiving via Portico
- Hosting in responsive PDF & HTML formats
- Automatic inclusion in 15+ indexing/abstracting databases (and submission to others like EBSCO, Web of Science, SCOPUS, PubMed, DOAJ)
- ORCiD integration
- Author performance metrics to boost visibility
Complimentary Services
Everything you need to publish successfully, included at no extra cost
Journal Management
- Dedicated publishing editor
- Hosted website with customisable layouts
- Help defining journal scope, mission
- Annual analytics report + strategic review
- Training and guidance for authors, reviewers, editors
- Back-catalog transfer, journal launches, subscription-to-OA conversions
Promotion & Visibility
- Website & social media promotion
- Special issues & calls for papers management
- Multi-platform hosting
- Custom journal cover, TOC images, banners, logo
- Promotional flyers & branded emails
- Access for authors to KUDOS for wider research promotion
Supplementary Services
Tailored upgrades to further enhance your journal’s reach and quality
- Editorial board development
- Bibliometric/scope analyses
- Video abstracts
- Marketing campaigns & collateral
- Advanced English language editing
- Hard-copy issue printing
- Custom content alerts & email notifications
What This Means for Your Journal
Greater visibility & recognition
Streamlined editorial workflows
Sustainable Open Access solutions
Expert launch & setup support
Tailored regional guidance
End-to-end publishing support
Trusted Open Access transition guidance
Hosting and Visibility with KnE Open
KnE Open is a Diamond Open Access platform that hosts academic journals and publications, ensuring every manuscript is openly accessible, rigorously peer-reviewed, and professionally copyedited. Journals are securely archived and indexed in recognized databases to maximize global reach and discoverability.
Authors retain full copyright, access detailed usage metrics, and can further promote their work through complimentary tools like Kudos. Hosting with KnE Open ensures your journal content reaches a broad international audience while maintaining the highest publishing standards.
Learn More About Hosting on KnE Open
Receive a tailored advisory plan for your journal, including workflow optimisation, indexing strategy, Open Access guidance, and editorial support.