[ Open-Source Software Journal Management Systems Bibliographies Journals about E-Publishing Selected Articles ]
Open-Source (Freeware) Journal Management Software [top]
Article System is an open source, online article management system aimed to be an online analogy of a paper-printed periodical. The primary components to contain the articles are therefore issues. But it can nevertheless be used as an ordinary CMS (Content Management System) to build an internet presentation.DPubS, Cornell University
DPubS (Digital Publishing System) is an open source general-purpose publication management system based on Cornell University Library's innovative publishing software, DPubS (Digital Publishing System). In collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University, Cornell will enhance and extend the DPubS software, which was developed to deliver Project Euclid. This flexible online publishing tool will aid institutions of higher education and research in managing and distributing the intellectual efforts of scholars and researchers.
An open open-source service that will build, host, and operate electronic journals. The service uses Openly Informatic's document conversion software and its XML technology, eFIRST XML, which formats scholarly articles both for print and online presentation. Journals may download and use eFIRST XML components without charge. eFirst XML is specifically designed to allow journal articles to be optimized for presentation both on the Web and in print using a single storage format by supporting references to multiple graphic and multimedia files.
ePublishing Toolkit, Max Planck Society's ZIM
The open source software processes articles written in LaTeX with bibliographies prepared in BibTeX and produces an advanced web presentation in various formats. The software allows for reference and errata tracking, short cuts (pop-up windows) to cited equations, footnotes and article bibliography, and full-text search of the online articles.
Open Journal Systems, PKP @ Simon Fraser University
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a comprehensive, open-source journal management and publishing software system developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems and its finely grained indexing of research, OJS seeks to improve the scholarly quality of refereed research.
Journal Management Systems [top]
AllenTrack, Allen Press
AllenTrack is a fee-based service used for tracking manuscripts and accompanying correspondence through all stages of submission, preparation, and publication. The web-based application, powered by e-JournalPress software, will also convert files from the major word processing formats to any of the major web-viewable formats.
author2reader, VISTA International
The author2reader framework offers proven solutions to many of the world's largest international publishers in areas such as information analysis, editorial and production management, and physical and digital fulfillment for both books and journals. The web-based or locally installed product supports all aspects of the publishing value chain, from author care through production, rights and royalties to fulfillment, integrated in an e-business environment with full access to the analytical power of Publishing Intelligence.
BenchPress, Highwire Press
BenchPress is a complete manuscript submission, tracking, review, and publishing system developed by Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press. It accommodates peer review. BenchPress is customizable for each journal and will generate reports and statistics on the editorial process. It can prepare manuscripts for print or online publication.
EdiKit, Berkeley Electronic Press
Web-based management of all aspects of the editorial process for print or online journals, dissertations, monographs, and conference proceedings. For journals, EdiKit handles every step from submission to e-publication, including reviewer identification and tracking, correspondence management and reminders, revisions and resubmits, publication layout, and oversight of multiple issues.
Editorial Express, University of Maryland
Editorial Express is web-based software that can enable "paper-free" operation of the key editorial functions of a journal.
Editorial Manager, Aries Systems Corp.
This product is an online manuscript submission and tracking system. It provides a suite of customizable manuscript tracking and reporting tools for authors, reviewers, editors and journal office staff from submission to peer review and production.
EJournalPress, eJournalPress
eJournalPress provides one turnkey Internet application that has been packaged four different ways to suit various size journals. eJournalPress hosts the core software and datasets at its central computer facility. This "hosted" solution frees journals and publishers from worrying about hardware, network capacity, data backups, and other maintenance issues. The services and software are bundled together and licensed on a per-submission basis.
EPRESS, University of Surrey
EPRESS is aimed at promoting electronic publishing, and electronic journal take-up, in the social sciences and humanities. Tools help online manuscript tracking and journal production while providing access to reports on the process. Funding for EPRESS was provided by JISC's Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
e-Publishing Services, Extenza
Extenza e-Publishing Services, part of Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, removes the need for a small publisher to purchase and maintain their own e-publishing system, while still allowing the publisher to control of their journals online. Extenza provides real-time online access and usage reporting to understand users and adjust content plans accordingly.
Érudit , Érudit Consortium
The Érudit Consortium of academic publishers in Québec, Canada offers hosting services for digital production and dissemination to the international academic community. The publishing services include technical support but do not include peer review and manuscript management services.
ESPERE, ESPERE Consortium
The ESPERE consortium of academic publishers created the ESPERE service for online management of journals. The software manages online submission and peer review. The system is not integrated with a tracking database; consortial members use their own (often home-grown) databases. Data about the paper (title, authors, and submitting author's address details) are collected and can be can be supplied as files for transfer to a tracking database. Read more about ESPERE in a promotional article.
e-Stacks, ScholarOne
e-Stacks is one of the suite of tools ScholarOne offers for online workflow management and collaboration in the production of web-based journals. e-Stacks displays journal content over the Internet as PDF files in which users may browse tables of contents or search across all journal data for articles of interest. If a society publishes and posts multiple journals, searches may be requested all or maintain any software themselves. Also, clients can use the applications one at a time or adopt the full suite of products to manage their organizations and communities.
All Academic's Journal Services , All Academic, Inc.
Electronic journal hosting services include a standard format that adapts to fit the journal publisher's style and indexing preferences. Journal articles may be accessed by All Academic's search tools or by direct link from the journal to an archived listing.
JournalSoft® is a comprehensive, web-based solution for managing the pre-publication process for scholarly papers. The online application facilitates article submission and peer review by giving authors and reviewers real time updates throughout the peer-review process. For instance, once a review is submitted, it is immediately available to the authors who can then respond to the review comment-by-comment using our unique response form.
Open-Access Journal Publishing, BioMed Central
BioMed Central journals are web-based and free for users. The costs are borne by a $500 per article processing fee. If a newly created journal covering a topic in the biomedical field uses this business model, and conforms to the BioMed Central copyright policy, then the organization supplies tools to create and manage the journal. The tools handle submission, peer review, acceptance and rejection, digitization, and publication in PDF or HTML. BioMed Central has no control over content and peer review; but will own the journal and control technical and marketing issues.
OSPRey, National Research Council Press
The OSPRey online submission and peer review system was jointly developed with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CISTI) in Australia to be an innovative system that allows authors to:
See an implementation of the OSPRey web interface for NRC Press' journal Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
Rapid Review, Cadmus KnowledgeWorks
The Rapid series of products, including Rapid Review, was built to expedit the preparation and delivery of file content while streamlining processes for ease. Based on publishing experience, specifically medical, technical and scientific journals, Cadmus KnowledgeWorks has a product to support every phase during the preparation, submission, reviewing, editing, publishing and distribution processes of an online journal. For instance, the web-based Rapid Review handles the many tasks associated with peer review and helps keep manuscripts and reviewers on schedule.
See Cadmus Uses the Web to Give Journals an Edge, Seybold Report on Internet Publishing, Volume 4, Number 10, pp. 7-11.
Roquade, University of Utrecht
The Roquade project offers various options of electronic-publishing services, tools, infrastructure and know-how to learned societies, universities, university presses and individual researchers. These options vary from simple template-based text conversion tools for online publishing for a scientific journal's web site, to a full publishing process including storage and retrieval tools, security and sophisticated Web marketing. Roquade is an initiative of three Dutch university libraries.
Scholarly Exchange provides a comprehensive and affordable scholarly journal/conference web-based infrastructure to scholars, societies and institutions. The service infrastructure consists of three components for managing online scholarly publishing: Content Collection, Review and Workflow Control. Combining simple user interfaces with sophisticated behind-the-scenes features, it provides an editorial management system that is both semi-automated and fully automated (rules-based). It enables effective manuscript handling and peer review management for journal editors, their chosen reviewers and the submitting authors. All hosted services are maintained securely and dependably on the servers of Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada.
SmartPublishing, Mira Digital Publishing
SmartPublishing provides tools and services that make life easier for professionals working to produce scientific, technical, or scholarly publications in a variety of media such as print, CD-ROM and on the web. Services include scanning & document conversion, XML/SGML tagging, and custom application development.
Temple Peer Review Manager, Temple University
The software application, also known as TPRM, manages web-based peer review of articles submitted to scholarly journals or conferences. TPRM allows authors to submit papers easily in several different file formats with a Web browser. They also can manage all their submissions from one integrated Web based interface, using one account and one password. Since the system maintains and records the status of articles, authors wanting to know about their contributions can check via a Web site rather than contacting an editor. In addition, the system archives accepted, rejected, and withdrawn papers.
XpressTrack allows a publisher to manage the editorial process through real time, web-based monitoring of manuscript status. The software allows customized setup to match journal policies. Dynamically constructed menus permit users to see authorized options only. Logging into the system presents a list to the user of all tasks requiring his or her attention.
Bibliographies [top]
Bibliography and Summary: Electronic Peer Review Management, Kam Shapiro, University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing.
Journals about E-Publishing [top]
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 1- (1995) - to present: http://www.dlib.org/ (Corporation for National Research Initiatives). Major journal dedicated to digital issues of interest to libraries and librarians. Open access.
JEP: the journal of electronic publishing, vol. 1- (1995) - to present: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/index.html (University of Michigan Press). Open access.
Selected Articles [top]
The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System Eva Müller (D-Lib Magazine, v.9, no.11, Nov. 2003): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november03/muller/11muller.html
Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals, Steven Harnad (D-Lib Magazine, v.5, no.12, Dec. 1999).
Getting Your Journal Indexed, SPARC, September 2003. The why's, how's, and who's of journal indexing.
Online Peer Review: Current Options, Dee Wood, ESPERE Project Manager, Learned Publishing, April 2001, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 151-158.
Publishing Open-Access Journals, Public Library of Science, February 2004. A white paper providing a practical discussion of the steps involved in publishing an open-access journal and the associated costs.
Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Software and Systems, Gerry McKiernan, Library Hi Tech News, 19(7), August 2002: 31-43.
Electronic publishingElectronic publishing includes the publication of ebooks and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed paper scientific journals are in the process of being replaced by electronic publishing. There is usually a delay of several months after an article is written before it is published in a paper journal and this makes journals not an ideal format for disseminating the latest research. In some fields such as astronomy and some parts of physics, the role of the journal at disseminating the latest research has largely been replaced by preprint databases such as arXiv.org. However, scientific journals still provide an important role in quality control, archiving papers, and establishing scientific credit. In general, the electronic material uploaded to preprint database are still intended for eventual publication in a peer-reviewed journal. (From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_publishing) |