“Scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access…”
Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
It is an exciting combination: a technology company, Open Access Press, offering the world’s most ubiquitous journal management software platform, the Open Journal Systems (OJS), as a hosted solution.
Nearly 3,000 Journals run on the OJS.
The Open Journal System, developed by a partnership between Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, Stanford, and Arizona State University is used by nearly 3,000 journals around the world, including Harvard University’s Journal of Legal Analysis. The OJS is built with tried and true technologies that power a vast majority of the web – PHP and MySQL. The Open Access Press runs your instance on Linux, with an Apache web server. But the beauty of the situation is that you don’t need to know what that is to publish a journal because Open Access Press handles all the technological details for you.
The OJS software assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submission, editing, publication, and finally archiving. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS improves both the scholarly and public quality of referred research.
Features and Benefits
Features
- Online submission and management of all content
- Fully configurable journal policies, journal sections, and review process.
- Email notification and commenting ability for editors, reviewers, authors, readers.
- Comprehensive indexing.
- Subscription and payment module.
- Complete context-sensitive online help support
Benefits
- Hosted solution means journal owners do not have to buy hardware, install software, do system maintenance, or upgrade hardware and software – Open Access Press takes care of all of that for you.
- Substantially reduced costs associated with publication, production, and overhead.
- Provide instant worldwide access to all your content.
- Automated administration of submission, review, submission management, scheduling, and editorial processes.
- All content searchable and indexable by major sources: Google Scholar; EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service (EJS) Index; OAIster.org; Directory of Open Access Journals (http://doaj.org); NewJour (http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/) Librarians Index to the Internet (http://lii.org); Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org); CiteSeer; others.
- Increased citation potential for scholars.
- Native digital format makes for simplified reuse of content (e.g., creating new published collections of articles).
