A New Platform for an Undergraduate Research Journal

The Washington University Journal of Undergraduate Research (WUJUR) recently launched its digital repository on the WashU Libraries’ open-source scholarly publishing platform called Open Scholarship Journals. Founded in 2024, the peer-reviewed journal promotes and publishes a wide variety of student research across all disciplines.

WashU Libraries’ Digital Publishing Services provides publishing support for open access, scholarly, and educational journals developed by members of the university community. “We are excited to have WUJUR on the library’s journal system and, through that collaboration, to continue supporting and promoting student research over the long term,” said Cadence Cordell, digital publishing manager. The new WUJUR digital repository will archive articles and offer structured workflows to manage all steps of the digital publication process, ensure long-term access, cataloging, and discoverability, and improve technical troubleshooting.

Cedric Bruges, a senior majoring in biology and French and the editor-in-chief of WUJUR, says the newly implemented comprehensive publication management system “offers superior archiving” and  “marks an important step in WUJUR’s continued efforts to streamline and improve its submission, production, and publication processes” for authors, readers, peer reviewers, and editors.

The WUJUR digital repository will act in tandem with the journal’s principal site, wujur.org.