We launched a new institutional open access journal, the Journal of Maine Medical Center (JMMC), in 2018. We sought to engender community support and engagement through purposeful design and implementation. An ad hoc group was formed of institutional members with diverse backgrounds. Editorial Board and Editorial Team members were drawn from within the academic community. The journal name, aims and scope, recognizable logo, cover page and images were all strategically selected in order to engender institutional and community support. Institutional funding was solicited to support an open-access, no-fee, model. We adopted a philosophy of supporting novice authors with revisions of manuscripts that show merit, as opposed to immediate rejection. We assessed success of community engagement through semi-structured interviews of authors and reviewers and qualitative analysis of the transcripts. As evidenced by their perceptions, we have made positive steps toward supporting the academic mission of our institution and the scholarly professional identity of our participants. We outline a number of elements that are relevant to the start of a new academic journal and community engagement that we feel would be of interest to others considering a similar undertaking.

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新机构医学期刊对职业认同发展和学术文化变革的影响：一项定性研究

我们于 2018 年推出了一种新的机构开放获取期刊，即缅因州医学中心杂志( JMMC )。我们试图通过有目的的设计和实施来获得社区的支持和参与。一个特设小组由具有不同背景的机构成员组成。编辑委员会和编辑团队成员来自学术界。期刊名称、目标和范围、可识别的标志、封面和图像都经过战略性选择，以引起机构和社区的支持。寻求机构资金支持开放获取、免费的模式。我们采用了一种理念，即通过修改表现出优点的手稿来支持新手作者，而不是立即拒绝。我们通过对作者和审稿人的半结构化访谈以及对成绩单的定性分析来评估社区参与的成功。正如他们的看法所证明的那样，我们已采取积极步骤支持我们机构的学术使命和参与者的学术专业身份。我们概述了一些与开始新的学术期刊和社区参与相关的要素，我们认为其他考虑类似事业的人会感兴趣。