Nordic Scientific and
Scholarly journal publishing
- interesting times.
Practical OJS hosting
OJS in the Nordic Countries
The PKP Project
Uppsala 25/11/2009
Kurt Mathiesen, Copenhagen Business School Library
Ejournals@CBS
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Service since 2005/6
E-journal service hosted at CBS
Available for journals related to CBS
Free of charge
Reliable backup
Open Source Platform
Strong international software base
Ejournals@CBS
Hosted Journals
• The Copenhagen Journal of Asian
Studies
• Foucault Studies
• LSP & Professional Communication
• Dansk Sociologi
• Ledelse og Erhvervsøkonomi
(management)
• Sats – Nordic Journal of Philosophy
• DF Revy (DK Research Libraries)
What do we offer?
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Help setting up the journal
Training for editorial staff
Backup
Technical support along the way
Support in relation to copyright,
digitisation etc.
• Institutional/national network
Open Journal Systems
(OJS)
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Hosted service, but local
Highly configurable
Online submission
Handles review-process
Subscription module
OAI-PMH
Search engine friendly
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CSS Styling
Email-notification
RSS-feeds
Fulltext
searchable
What do we offer? (2)
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Initial meetings + OJS demonstration
Journal setup:16 hours
Training: 2-3 sessions of 3 hours
Technical Support: 2-3 hours/month
Other support: ? (growing)
Network activities ? (growing)
Lessons learned CBS
Library
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All journals are unique
Don’t stand hard on OA
Make gradual transition possible
Needs and wishes grow
Join cooperation
Service Level Agreements?
E-publishing in DK (1)
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623 journals*
163 online available in some form*
Few are using editorial software
Individual OJS-journals:
• Journal of International Commercial Law
and Technology (JICLT)
• HIPHIL
• Nordisk Teologi
*Jørgen Burchardt, 2007. Viden giver velstand: Hvidbog om dansk forskningsformidling.
E-publishing in DK (2)
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University of Copenhagen
Museum Tusculanum Press
Aarhus University
Aalborg University (+OCS)
Technical University of Denmark
(+OCS)
• Roskilde University
• Copenhagen Business School
(+OCS)
OJS in the Nordic countries
NOAP
• Test and compare different
publishing platforms
• Brief review suggested OJS as the sole
survivor in the market.
• New focus on hosting service instead of
system + development issues related to
OJS
• Translation: Done.
• Possible developments:
• POD
• Scientific Reviews in Scandinavia
OJS in the Nordic countries
• Uses and Users
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Individual Society Journals
Scholarly publishers
University Publishers
University Libraries
Professional for profit publishers
OJS in the Nordic countries
• Uses and Users
• Open Journal System
• Open Conference Systems
• Open Monograph Press
OJS in the Nordic countries
• Uses and Users
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Open Access
Tool Access
Online submission and peer review
Online Archive
Anthologies
Nordic OxS User Group?
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One common project
Some cooperation
Some shared interests?
Some coming projects?
• At journal-staff level
• Best practice
• How do I?
The Public Knowledge Project
Public Knowledge Project
• Initiated in 1998 primarily to
estimate the costs of publishing a
scholarly journal.
• Released first software package in
2001
Public Knowledge Project
• Develops and maintains several
software packages:
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Open Journal Systems
Open Conference Systems
PKP Harvester
Open Monograph Press
Lemon8
PKP meeting agenda
• Development strategies and
conditions
• Funding (eg. Inspiration from
http://ez.no/developer/open_funding)
• OJS
• OCS
• Development requests (we’ll bring a
list)
• Danish/Nordic OxS communities
PKP Conference
• Customizing OJS for publishers of cultural
magazines
• (delete 40%, magazinise transl., graphical challenges)
• Questioning Accesibility (using video in OJS)
• Consider geography and socioeconomic features of
readership
• Lemon8-XML
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import documents in any current format (almost)
extract document objects eg. metadata, sections etc.
provide editability for document object
assist users with citation correction
export to a machine actionable xml format
Further Info
• NOAP wiki
• http://ub.uit.no/wiki/noap
• Website (incl. mailing list)
• http://blog.cbs.dk/oo
• PKP
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/
• Nordic OJS journals
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/littleboy/sets/
72157615774282059/show/
Ejournals@CBS
Copenhagen Business School Library
Faculty Services
Kurt Mathiesen
km.lib@cbs.dk