Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing releases scholarly communications platform, “Janeway” – Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing

"Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing is pleased to announce the open-source release of its software for academic publishing. 'Janeway' is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that is free to download, use, and modify.

Written in Django/Python from the ground up and still under active development, the software includes a submission system, a peer-review management workflow, Crossref DOI integration, OAI feeds, Open Journal Systems import mechanisms, an extensible plugin architecture, and much more. Janeway is licensed under the AGPL meaning that anyone is free to use and modify the software, so long as they make their changes similarly open (even if they modify the code in private and publicly host that instance). The software is lightweight and can run on shared hosting platforms that support WSGI, such as Reclaim Hosting."