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Help for OJS Users

OJS New Features (from version 2.2.4 to 2.3.3)
http://library.queensu.ca/files/ojs-new.pdf

OJS Discussion and Support Forums
OJS has a discussion and a support forum whose participants are always ready to supply answers to your questions.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewforum.php?f=18&sid=b3952e95655eb4a0bc3aedb2ce008a22

OJS User guide
A comprehensive guide to the various features and roles in establishing, managing and editing a journal with OJS with many step by step illustrations.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/docs/userguide/2.3.3/userguide.pdf

Customising Your OJS Journal
This illustrated booklet describes real-world customizations that can easily be accomplished by the Journal Manager without resorting to additional coding. Users familiar with XML style sheets, can learn how to further customize their journal's OJS style sheet.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Customizing_OJS

Indexing Your Publication in the Major Commercial Journal Databases
This list of database vendors presents the selection criteria and contacts to inquire about indexing your journal in many of the major commercial journal databases.
http://library.queensu.ca/files/journal-indexing.pdf

Using the Web-based Expedited Submission Process
If you only have a handful of files to import quickly, or if you don't want to depend on making XML files to import articles and issues, there is another way to expedite the submissions, available to Journal Managers from the 5-step Author Submission process.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Importing_and_Exporting_Data#Using_the_Web-based_Expedited_Submission_Process_to_Add_Articles_Quickly

Importing and Exporting Data with OJS
This document details the five import/export plugins available with OJS: the CrossRef, Erudit and PubMed export plugins; the Users import and export plugin; and the Articles & Issues import and export plugin. Special consideration is also given to the web-based expedited article submission process available to journal editors.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Importing_and_Exporting_Data

Embedding Multimedia into OJS or OCS
Using Web 2.0 tools like Blip and Slideshare, you can embed videos or slide shows directly into an OJS or OCS page.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Embedding_Multimedia_within_OJS_and_OCS

Getting Found, Staying Found, Increasing Impact
This document shows OJS publishers how to raise their journal's profile, and suggests strategies for the preservation of their content.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/GettingFoundStayingFound.pdf

An Introduction to Use of Roles in Open Journal Systems
PowerPoint presentation illustrating with tables and screen shots how OJS uses different roles to manage and publish journals online.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/presentations/OJSUserRoles.ppt

Sustainability

  • Ensuring a Journal’s Economic Sustainability, While Increasing Access to Knowledge
    This presentation outlines the economic and quality advantages of open access, online publishing, and online journal management.
    http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/Economic Sustainability.pdf

  • Establishing and Publishing an Online Peer-Reviewed Journal: Action Plan, Resourcing, and Costs
    The findings of an independent analyst, whose work not only highlights the strengths of OJS, but also answers many questions others will have in the early stages of starting a journal, including the critical issues of time, costs, and planning.
    http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS_Project_Report_Shapiro.pdf

  • Income Models for Supporting Open Access: An overview of current practice
    “Who pays for Open Access?” is a key question faced by publishers, authors, and libraries as awareness and interest in free, immediate, online access to scholarly research increases. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open-access publishers in a timely new guide, “Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice,” by Raym Crow.
    http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/incomemodels/imguide.shtml

  • OA journal business models
    A wiki listing business models and revenue sources for OA journals, maintained by the Open Access Directory. OAD hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.
    http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models

  • Using PayPal for OJS and OCS Payments
    This document outlines the steps to create a PayPal account and configure OJS and OCS to collect secure online payments.
    http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Using_PayPal_for_OJS_and_OCS_Payments

Most of the above documents are reproduced here from the Open Journal Systems site. You can visit the site for additional documentation. http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs_documentation

 

Last Updated: 21 June 2011