What is OJS?

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a platform for managing and publishing scientific journals, designed to facilitate open access and democratization of academic knowledge. Developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), OJS is an open-source software preferred by universities and researchers for managing editorial processes.

Integrated Editorial Process

• The Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform provides you with a complete workflow that allows you to submit, review, edit, and publish.
• The main benefit of the platform is better control of the editorial process, extensive customization possibilities and great visibility of published works.

IT’S OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN ACCESS

From the outset, PKP has been building publishing platforms, including OJS, OMP, and OPS, using free and open source software (FOSS) principles and licensing. In seeking to support the publishing of open access journals and books, as well as preprint posting, PKP is part of a scholarly publishing ecosystem providing infrastructure that is as open as the science that will benefit from such systems.

SUBMIT
Invite authors to submit to your journal through a configurable, step-by-step submission wizard.
REVIEW
Select peer reviewers, assign due dates, and send reminders to stay on schedule.
PUBLISH
Collect your articles, editorials and reviews into issues and publish them online in a mobile-friendly website.
DISTRIBUTE
Drive the dissemination and discovery of your work through Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, OAI-PMH metadata harvesters, and more.

KEY FEATURES

Run one or many journals: Every installation of OJS can run one or many journals, so you can decide what suits your publishing setup.
Flexible editorial workflow: Host a small editorial collective or run a streamlined publishing pipeline with editors, copyeditors and production assistants.
Rich publication metadata: Share your work in machine-readable metadata formats like Dublin Core and OAI-PMH.
Indexing and dissemination: Quickly deposit your work with discovery services like Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, DataCite and PubMed.
Global scholarly infrastructure: Integrate with open industry standards such as DOIs, ORCID authentication and ROR affiliations.
Stay on schedule: Track every submission and find out quickly when editors and reviewers are falling behind.
Peer review: Find the right reviewers for every submission, with reviewer interests and editorial ratings, as well as accept and decline rates.
Preserve the scholarly record: Track changes to publications with versioned metadata and use the activity log to audit controversial editorial decisions.