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OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEMS

Manage your entire researcher-to-reader workflow for
submission, peer review, and production from one place with
OJS, the world’s most widely used end-to-end scholarly
publishing platform.

Publish articles and issues online and have them fully indexed in
global discovery services like Google Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ,
and many others.

DOWNLOAD 

Download and install OJS on your own server.

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DOCUMENTATION 

Our technical documentation for sysadmins, plugin developers, and theme

builders.

USER GUIDES 

Tutorials and step-by-step guides for librarians, publishers and editorial managers.

EVERYTHING A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL NEEDS

1 SUBMIT
Invite authors to submit to your journal through a configurable, step-by-step
submission wizard.

2 REVIEW
Select peer reviewers, assign due dates, and send reminders to stay on
schedule.

3 PUBLISH
Collect your articles, editorials and reviews into issues and publish them
online in a mobile-friendly website.

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4 DISTRIBUTE
Drive the dissemination and discovery of your work through Google Scholar,
DOAJ, Crossref, OAI-PMH metadata harvesters, and more.

KEY FEATURES

Powerful, flexible software that is built to meet the needs of journals in every
country, language and discipline.

 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.

 Your journals, your brand

Create a custom theme for your journal or publishing house. Or customize one of
our responsive, off-the-shelf themes (https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/demo/).

 Rich publication metadata

Share your work in machine-readable metadata formats like Dublin Core and OAI-
PMH.

 Multiple languages

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Born in multilingual Canada, our software supports journals publishing in one or

two or as many languages as you need.

 Indexing and dissemination

Quickly deposit your work with discovery services like Google Scholar, DOAJ,
Crossref, DataCite and PubMed.

 Long-term preservation
Ensure your journals are preserved in permanent archiving services like PKP|PN
and CLOCKSS/LOCKSS.

 Global scholarly infrastructure

Integrate with open industry standards such as DOIs, ORCID authentication and
ROR affiliations.

 Own your data

No lock-ins or walled gardens. Use import/export tools to take your data
anywhere, even to a different platform.

 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.

 Track your success

View detailed article-by-article statistics and monitor editorial metrics like
response times and reviews per submission.

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 Audio/video and datasets

Publish audio and video files, bespoke digital humanities projects or research
datasets alongside full-text PDF, Word and HTML.

 Preserve the scholarly record

Track changes to publications with versioned metadata and use the activity log to
audit controversial editorial decisions.

TRUSTED BY INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD

PKP’s open source software is being used around the globe – improving
the quality and access to academic research.

(https://home.cern/)
(https://econtinua.dgb.unam.mx/)

(https://www.scielo.org/)
(https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/)

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(https://www.utoronto.ca/) (https://www.cornell.edu/)

(https://twin-
cities.umn.edu/) (https://www.ed.ac.uk/)

(https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/index.html)(https://amaljyothi.ac.in)

“With OJS we can easily host more than a hundred

small journals in many languages. That has lowered
the cost of publishing and helped more Finnish
journals make the switch to open access.”
-Antti-Jussi Nygård, Coordinator, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

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SHOWCASE JOURNALS

NOASP (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/noasp/)

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Journal of Digital Social Research (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/journal-of-

digital-social-research/)

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Athenea Digital (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/athenea-digital/)

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Journal of Tibetan Literature (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/journal-tibetan-

literature/)

VIEW MORE SHOWCASES 

(HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/SOFTWARE/OJS/SHOWCASES/)

HOW IT WORKS

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Authors submit to your journal through an easy, step-by-step wizard. Remind them
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right from the start.

DOWNLOAD & INSTALL

(HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/SOFTWARE/OJS/DOWNLOAD/)

TRY A DEMO
(HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/SOFTWARE/OJS/DEMO/)

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USED AROUND THE WORLD

More than 30,000 journals in 150 countries use OJS to publish

research in 60+ languages, making it the most widely used
scholarly publishing software in the world.

GLOBAL USAGE DATA

(HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/SOFTWARE/OJS/USAGE-DATA/)

CHOOSE A LOOK

Explore demos of our free official themes. Select a theme, choose your colors,
upload a logo and you’re ready to launch. If you need more control over the look and
feel of your site, our theming guide (https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-theming-
guide/en/) makes it easy for a developer to build a fully custom design.

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EXPLORE THEMES (HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/SOFTWARE/OJS/DEMO/)

HOSTING & OTHER SERVICES

Want to focus on publishing and have the technical work of

installation, hosting, troubleshooting, and upgrades taken care
of? PKP offers complete hosting and support plans for OJS, OMP,
and OPS, plus training, consulting, and custom development.

EXPLORE HOSTING SERVICES

(HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/HOSTING-SERVICES/)

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FEATURED CLIENTS

Journal of Tibetan Literature (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/journal-tibetan-

literature/)

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The Forum on Education Abroad (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/the-forum-on-

education-abroad/)

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GET HELP & SUPPORT

There’s plenty of help when you need it. Learn what’s available from PKP
and our community of thousands of scholarly communications
professionals.

TRAINING 

Get your whole team up and running quickly with these training resources,
including how to set up a journal, best practices in publishing, and a full video
course for editors.

DOCUMENTATION 

Comprehensive documentation on how to install and use our software, along with
Canadian
helpful Geriatrics
guides on howJournal (https://pkp.sfu.ca/showcase/cgj/)
to get indexed, keeping your software up-to-date and
secure, and a whole lot more.

COMMUNITY FORUM 

Join hundreds of editors and publishers on our Forum, where our community asks
and answers questions, and shares tips on how to achieve their publishing goals.

EXPLORE SUPPORT
(HTTPS://PKP.SFU.CA/SUPPORT/)

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THE PKP STORY

For  more than two decades, PKP has helped researchers, scholarly societies, and
academic libraries take back control of the scholarly publishing in the service of
they and their colleagues’ work.

VIEW PKP TIMELINE

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