Maintaining an open access journal painlessly with Open Journal Systems | Endocode AG

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Summary:

" ... We recently consulted for an online journal who had been producing issues of their publication using WordPress, the famous blogging platform. With several plug-ins and the imaginative use of some features, their WordPress had been retooled to produce an academic journal instead of a blog. However, after releasing several issues, the editorial board had decided it was time for a change because using WordPress like this was getting too painful. Despite the adaptations, there was still too much communication overhead and too many manual, error-prone steps. These guys came to Endocode seeking our help. They had learned of an alternative journal publishing system called Open Journal Systems (OJS) which was already in use by thousands of online journals all over the world. OJS is a PHP-based web application that allows you to produce an academic online journal. Our clients wanted to know if it could offer them a better way of doing things ... An analysis of OJS looked very promising and revealed several key advantages. Most obvious was the full support for an efficient and academic workflow. To describe the first part of the process briefly: an author with a candidate article submits it to the site, which then goes through several rounds of peer review by editors and/or other reviewers associated with the journal before it’s voted on for acceptance. This part is a key requirement in the process of academic publishing and OJS helps immensely by taking on much of the responsibility throughout: the status of the article, which users should currently have outstanding tasks, informing everyone when something changes – it’s all managed by OJS. When a paper arrives, OJS informs the editor by email. When a review is scheduled, OJS makes it available to the reviewers and drops a message in their inboxes. When a paper is accepted, OJS ends the review process and messages the copy editors to get cracking on the publication process. And on it goes.  There’s a ton of other features that support the requirements of academic journals: dividing issues into sections (e.g. Articles, Editorials, Letters to the Editors etc.), setting review policies and author guidelines, integrating with external academic archiving services – these are just a few examples. Where OJS doesn’t suit your needs out of the box, it has a plug-in system, allowing you to install new features. Plug-ins proved helpful when our clients wanted to add some of their own custom pages of content. While OJS doesn’t allow you to do this by default, we found and installed a plug-in that lets them easily create their own static content whenever they like.  It makes things all rather simple ..."

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https://endocode.com/maintaining-an-open-access-journal-painlessly-with-open-journal-systems/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.cc oa.wordpress oa.gold oa.ojs oa.publishing oa.floss oa.libre oa.journals

Date tagged:

04/12/2014, 07:22

Date published:

04/12/2014, 03:22