Open Journal Systems

OJS 3 Screenshot

Developer(s)| Public Knowledge Project
Stable release|

3.1.2 / 28 February 2019 (2019-02-28)

Platform| PHP
Available in| Multilingual
Type| Open access publishing
License| GNU General Public License
Website| pkp.sfu.ca/ojs

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, and is created by the Public Knowledge Project, released under the GNU General Public License.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Design
* 2 Versions
* 3 Use
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 7 External links

## Design

Open Journal Systems (OJS) was designed to facilitate the development of open access, peer-reviewed publishing, providing the technical infrastructure not only for the online presentation of journal articles, but also an entire editorial management workflow, including: article submission, multiple rounds of peer-review, and indexing. OJS relies upon individuals fulfilling different roles, such as journal manager, editor, reviewer, author, and reader. It has a module that supports subscription journals.[2][3]

Like other community-based projects such as WordPress, the software has a plugin architecture, which allows new features to be integrated without changing the core code base. Available plugins facilitate indexing in Google Scholar and PubMed Central, publishing RSS/Atom web syndication feeds, and providing COUNTER statistics about online usage.[4] OJS is also LOCKSS-compliant, which helps ensure ongoing access to journal contents. Third-party plugins include Reading Tools,[5] which point readers to related studies, media stories, and policy documents in open access databases.

## Versions

Originally released in 2001, OJS is currently in version 3.1.2, released in February 2019. PKP also maintains a version 2 branch, with OJS 2.4.8-2 released in March 2017.[6] Version 2 includes some features and languages not supported in version 3.[7] OJS is written in PHP, uses either a MariaDB (née MySQL) or PostgreSQL database, and can be hosted on a Unix-like or Windows web server.

OJS has been translated into many languages. As of Version 2.3, there are 17 languages with complete translations (Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian, Arabic), with many additional languages (including Chinese, Hindi and Vietnamese) in development. All translations are created and maintained by the user community.[8]

## Use

A user community has developed around the software, with active participants, and enhancements being contributed to the project from the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT),[9][failed verification] the Journal of Medical Internet Research,[citation needed] and others. A growing body of publications and documentation[10] is available on the project web site.

As of mid-2015, OJS was being used by at least 8,000 journals worldwide.[11] A map showing the location of these journals is also available on PKP's website.[12] A survey in 2010 found that about half were in the developing world.[13]

OJS hosting service is offered for a fee by PKP|PS (PKP-operated Publishing Services),[14][15] as well as a variety of third-party commercial and non-commercial service providers not affiliated with PKP.[16]

The Public Knowledge Project is also collaborating with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to develop scholarly research portals in Africa,[17] Bangladesh,[18] Nepal,[19] and Vietnam.[20] In Venezuela, at least 32 independent organizations, public and private universities publish 230 journals using this platform.[21]

OJS, as well as the Érudit publishing system,[22] is being used in the Synergies project,[23] creating a scholarly portal for Canadian social sciences and humanities research. OJS is also being used for research portals in Brazil,[24] Spain, Italy [25] and Greece.[26]

## See also

* Open access journal
* DPubS
* OpenACS

## References

1. ↑ "GNU General Public License | Public Knowledge Project" (in en-US). https://pkp.sfu.ca/gpl/.
2. ↑ "Subscriptions". Open Journal Systems Help. http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/help/view/journal/topic/000025. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
3. ↑ "Open Journal Systems". Public Knowledge Project. http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
4. ↑ "COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources". http://www.projectcounter.org/about.html. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
5. ↑ Reading Tools
6. ↑ "Public Knowledge Project > Open Journal Systems > Download". https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download/. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
7. ↑ https://pkp.sfu.ca/2016/08/29/getting-ready-for-ojs-3-0-when-should-i-upgrade/
8. ↑ "OJS Languages". Public Knowledge Project. http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-languages. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
9. ↑ Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT)
10. ↑ publications and documentation
11. ↑ "OJS Stats". https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs-usage/ojs-stats/. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
12. ↑ "OJS Map". https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs-usage/ojs-map/. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
13. ↑ "A Survey of Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems" (in en). http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/24/41.
14. ↑ PKP|PS: The Only PKP-operated Publishing Service
15. ↑ PKP|PS Journal Hosting
16. ↑ Open Access Directory (OAD): OA journal launch services
17. ↑ "About AJOL". http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajol/pages/view/AboutAJOL. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
18. ↑ "About the site". http://banglajol.info/index.php/index/about. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
19. ↑ "About the Site". http://nepjol.info/index.php/index/about. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
20. ↑ "Vietnam Journals Online". http://www.vjol.info/. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
21. ↑ "Publicaciones OJS". http://meteoven.org/ojs/. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
22. ↑ "Érudit". Érudit.org. http://erudit.org. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
23. ↑ "About Synergies". http://www.synergies.umontreal.ca/. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
24. ↑ Brazil
25. ↑ "LEO". Cilea.it. http://leo.cilea.it. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
26. ↑ "EKT ePublishing". epublishing.ekt.gr/en. National Documentation Centre. http://epublishing.ekt.gr/en. Retrieved 2014-03-31.

## Further reading

* da Fonseca, R.M.S. (2004, June). Open Journal Systems. Paper presented at the ICCC 8th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Brasilia.
* Muthayan, S. (2003). Open access research and the public domain in South African universities: The Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, UNESCO, Paris.
* Willinsky, J. (2005). Open Journal Systems: An example of open source software for journal management and publishing. Library Hi-Tech 23 (4), 504-519.
* A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems, Mark Cyzyk and Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University

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