My section of a group presentation to the 2012 CUNY IT Conference entitled: The Online Journal System: Implications for Scholarly Publishing in CUNY.
I cover the basics of what the Open Journal System (OJS) does; how a journal, Urban Library Journal, moved over to OJS; and the backend of OJS as well as some considerations for using OJS.
Using serials solutions overlap analysis to identify print rev
OJS and Urban Library Journal
1. The Online Journal System:
Implications for Scholarly
Publishing in CUNY
OJS Background and
Urban Library Journal on OJS
Monica Berger
CUNY IT Associate Professor, Library
November 29, 2012 New York City College of Technology
Journal Manager, Urban Library Journal
3. 1. Background
OJS is an open source solution to managing and publishing
scholarly journals online
Highly flexible editor‐operated journal system installed on a
local Web server {Steve}
Reduces time and energy devoted to clerical and managerial
tasks {Beth}
Improving the record‐keeping and efficiency of editorial
processes {Beth}
Improves indexing and discovery
from OJS in an Hour
10. 2. Urban Library Journal and OJS
Hosting from Office of Library Services, moving to Graduate
Center next year
History: html Joomla OJS
Online editorial process finally used [yay!] after initial set up
in 2009
Most challenging task for journal manager (other than
learning OJS!): expedited uploading of back issues—tons
of metadata creation, manager needs to enroll as editor &
author
Help with this? See the PKP wiki
OJS was created by Public Knowledge Project (PKP) “ is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. It operates through a partnership among the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library, the School of Education at Stanford University, and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University.” http://pkp.sfu.ca/about
Register for new issue table of contents Browse/search by issue, author, title and search by keyword, abstract, and index terms Can email articles Refworks/citation managers Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/6021327208/
For the author : Register and then submit online OJS provides submission details Peer-review feedback and editing in system Copyeditor to author in system Index your own work http://www.celesteh.com/pics/June06/June06-Pages/Image17.html
For the webmaster/journal manager : Customize design and workflow electronically archiving older issues http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sA_hdLZwb6w/RpXwjLYGXRI/AAAAAAAAAh4/EaAtcPUpK24/s1600-h/1950_seac_large.jpg
Beth will speak more to her direct experience learning the system as an editor! For the editor: Get submissions online w/detailed checklist filled out by author Can create custom review form Assign reviewers from internal db Sends out standard emails as article goes through each step of editorial process Assign copyeditors, layout editors Image (Jean Stafford: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/6891657541/)
Here are some screenshots going from public view to backend …
More OJS views –what the reader sees when they click into an article. note the reading tools in the right pane
Need to login not matter what your role to 1) interact with the system or 2) enable the reading tools
Journal manager’s view
Journal manager’s view
Editor’s view—editing an article
For the author: uploading a submission. After uploading the submission, the author then enters metadata including affiliation, abstract, indexing keywords, etc.