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Webliography of Documentation for Open Journal Systems
This page provides an annotated listing of a selection of documentation about the Open Journal Systems available via the web. No attempt has been made to conduct a comprehensive survey or to produce a comparative evaluation. The list below represents a simplified introduction to the resources that we found helpful when setting up the system here.
Public Knowledge Project OJS HomepageComment:
A useful starting point. Mainly worthwhile because authoritative, but also well-organized.- OJS Support/Discussion Forums
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This is the highest-level page for the OJS Forums. It will take several clicks to get where you want to go, but you should be able to find your way to most places from here. - OJS Documentation Menu
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Reachable by an obvious link from the homepage, but worth special attention. The most useful (current) documentation is in the list below. - OJS/OCS Quick Reference
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A 39-page PDF with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with screenshots, for doing most editorial tasks. The second page is an editorial process flowchart - OJS in an Hour
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It does take a while to follow the steps in this document, but one learns a lot along the way. Briefly, this is a step-by-step how-to manual, designed to guide you through the process of building one specific kind of site. (I.e., it makes a lot of choices for you, rather than describing all of the options available.) This is very useful for going from zero to something, but further training is needed to learn the system properly. Also, this begins with stages like server preparation that make it less than ideal for training editors and other non-journal-manager users. - Customizing OJS
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Useful overview of ways to modify a journal using GUI-based controls. Limited almost entirely to presentational aspects. - Embedding Multimedia in OJS
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Not the solution we have chosen to use, but describes the current state of the software. - The Use of Roles in OJS
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"PowerPoint presentation illustrating with tables and screen shots how OJS uses different roles to manage and publish journals online." - OJS Journals List
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"This is not a comprehensive list of the over 2000 titles using OJS (as of January 2009), but includes those who have indicated an interest in being listed, and is intended to illustrate the diversity of journals using system." - Willinsky, OJS: An Example
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Interesting recounting of the motivation and process of developing OJS by its supervisor. Interesting discussion of costs. Also useful for a behind-the-curtain description of the goals and theories of design. - University of Technology Sydney's eScholarship Unit's Help Site
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This page is a brief overview of OJS Documentation, but the site deserves further attention. It seems to be an initiative designed to facilitate founding scholarly ejournals and the like. The site looks similar to the kind of site we will want to have available once we have moved beyond DSQ and have a full-fledged initiative going. - PKP OJS Online (Video) Tutorials
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There are currently only a handful of videos, but they address useful topics. - PKP OJS Wiki
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Primarily a development tool, it looks like, listing progress on new features, bug-fixes, and the like. - Bobby Graham, Open Publish: Open Access to Scholarly Research
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13-page PDF output of a Powerpoint presentation describing the National Library of Australia's trial migration of a journal to OJS. Not the deepest treatment of the subject, but useful as a) a precursor, and b) a model for publishable scholarship based on the work we have done and are doing. - PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007
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Online presence for the conference. The second URL is a blog for the conference. The blog seems to contain fairly detailed notes about the presentations, which cover digital publishing initiatives from around the world.