Nordic Scientific and Scholarly journal publishing - interesting times.

Practical OJS hosting

OJS in the Nordic Countries

The PKP Project

Uppsala 25/11/2009Kurt Mathiesen, Copenhagen Business School Library

Ejournals@CBS

• 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?

• 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)

• Hosted service, but local

• Highly configurable• Online submission• Handles review-process• Subscription module• OAI-PMH• Search engine friendly

• CSS Styling• Email-

notification• RSS-feeds• Fulltext

searchable

What do we offer? (2)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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• 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• Open Access• Tool Access• Online submission and peer review• Online Archive• Anthologies

Nordic OxS User Group?

• At host/publisher level• 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:

• 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• 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