university of edinburgh digital library ojs at st andrews oa week 2012
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Journal hosting with OJS
(Janet Aucock, Jackie Proven, Gillian Duncan (University of St Andrews); Angela Laurins, Claire
Knowles (University of Edinburgh)
Open Journal Systems (OJS)Public Knowledge Partnership (PKP)
Partners• Simon Fraser University Library• the School of Education at
Stanford University• University of British Columbia• the Canadian Centre for
Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University
• the University of Pittsburgh• Ontario Council of University
Libraies• the California Digital Library.
PKP systems• Open Journal Systems• Open Conference Systems • Open Harvester System• Open Monograph Press – launched
September 2012
All Open Source
At the end of June 2012 there were over 14,100 OJS titles around the world
Source: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/5323
Geographic distribution Jan 2012
Source: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-geog
Why are academics and student groups publishing with OJS?
• Low financial cost • Easy to install & easy to use• Allows academics and student groups to publish ‘born digital’
journals • Preserves ‘at risk’ journals and provides opportunities to re-launch
journals • Provides a platform for early career academics to publish & learn
about the publishing process• Creates opportunities for collaboration between institutions and
individuals on a global platform• Engages with a global readership and through Google Analytics and
COUNTER statistics allows you to gather stats on who is reading your journal
• There is an active support community and opportunities to contribute to the development of the software.
OJS helps manage the entire publishing workflow
• Editorial workflow (based around roles)• Author submission• Peer review process• Manage reader access, registration and notifications• Recommends default policy text• Can publish articles as HTML and/or PDFs and include
abstracts, publish multimedia content -video and audio files
5 easy steps to set up a journal
OJS at University of Edinburgh
2009 Pilot project Two very different journals:• Concept • Critical African Studies
Individual journal sites….
Critical African Studieshttp://www.criticalafricanstudies.ed.ac.uk/
After the pilot• Concept and Critical African Studies continue to
publish .. With little support from the library and no strong UoE identity
• There was recognition that OJS had potential but there was no impetus to explore it further….until Spring 2012
• Driven by demand and enthusiasm of two student groups
• Timely: forthcoming Finch report and OA publishing very much on the agenda
• Benefited from experience- both of pilot and from colleagues at St Andrews- and the realisation that supporting the journal publishing process goes beyond the 5 easy steps
"By implication publishers are perceived as contributing very little, other than simply assembling articles into journals and pushing them onto cash-strapped libraries to make a gargantuan profit.
That is a gross distortion of reality. The publishing process involves: soliciting and managing submissions; managing peer review; editing and preparing manuscripts; producing the articles; publishing and disseminating journals; and of course archiving. And the end result acts as a calling card and mark of quality, helping readers find content that is relevant to them and is trusted.......
Perhaps most important of all, from an access point of view, is the amount publishers have invested in platforms that support researchers in numerous ways. These include investments in article enhancement, visualisation, social networking, and mobile technology; valuable tools such as searchable image databases, navigation, alerts and citation notifications, and reference analysis. Publishers are also working on text-mining tools; linking to the datasets behind journal articles; and research performance measurement tools such as SciVal.
These are all part of the academic ecosystem and are provided by publishers, not to mention that almost 100% of journals are available electronically - created, digitised, structured, tagged and disseminated by publishers.”
Attacking publishers will not make open access any more sustainable, Graham Taylor, The
Guardian, 25th May 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/25/attacking-publishers-open-access-sustainable?INTCMP=SRCH
Not publishers, but supporting the publishing process
UoE journal hosting service….
• Is an integrated library service – drawing on the broad range of skills available in the library
• Within limits the service is provided free of charge to academics and student groups
• Providing a branded platform – individual designs but obvious UoE identity - adds credibility to journal
• Taken the decision not to support subscription based journals and to only support OA journals… this has not been tested yet….nor has the service been actively promoted…..
UoE Journal hosting service• Provides a secure and managed platform • Offers training & support to publishers a• Provides help with journal design and article
layout • Offers advice regarding publishing best practices
and ethics. • Including providing copyright advice, providing standard text for
policies - copyright, take down, Open Access• Helps increase journal visibility through
registration with DOAJ and offering advice on SEO• Sets up and monitors Google Analytics accounts• Hosts multimedia content with UoE streaming
service
The South Asianisthttp://journals.ed.ac.uk/southasianist
The Unfamiliarhttp://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar
Branding and Design1.Colours – 2 or 32.Header – Image or logo and title3.Font – check on web pages4.Journal Image – Optional5.Issue Image
Check on other browsers and devicesContinue on other websites and pdfs eg blogs
UoE Footer• Copyright• Link to School• Link to UoE hosting service• Privacy and Cookies• Take Down Policy
PDF Templates• Journal URL• Journal Name• ISSN• Volume• Issue• Page Numbers• Logos• Relationship between issues and articles- should
still be identified as part of the journal if read in print or online
HTML Articles• Statistics• Easier for search engines to index• PDFs can be a barrier to reading with low-
bandwidth internet connections• Can include images and links• Templates for consistency• Embed videos
Journal Description and Abstracts • Indexed by Google• Not too long• Keywords for articles and journal
Statistics• OJS COUNTER statistics
– Full text article requests by month by journal
• Google Analytics– Register with Google who provide a tracking
code– Inbuilt Generic OJS plugin, just add tracking code – Landing pages, browsers, visitors by day, in and
out pages, visitors by location, etc, etc . . .
Google Analytics• Shows trends• How people are reading your journal
– Importance of templates
• Find your readers– Are they who you expect?– Where people are reading your journal
When visitors come
Peaks when issues are published
How your journal is read
Where your journal is read
Top 6 Landing Pages for 12 monthsHow many people are going directly to articles
Page No. Visitors No. PagesJournal Page 2300 5Article 63 460 1Article 99 221 2Article 62 137 2Article 108 128 2Article 87 124 1
Promotion• Journal led• Links on school pages• Facebook Campaigns• Blog entries• Mailing lists• Targeted interested visitors (registrations,
Google Analytics statistics)• DOAJ http://www.doaj.org/
Social Network
