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Brian
Hole:
PKP
Scholarly
Publishing
Conference
2013,
Mexico
City,
20
August
2013
Building
a
scalable,
sustainable
service
with
OJS

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Overview
 The problem
 The solution
 Aspects of
modification
 The resulting
product

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Problem:
needed
a
large,
scalable
journals
pla=orm
 Experience
from
Elsevier,
BioMed
Central,
Dryad.
 Commercial
plaLorms:
 are
expensive
 have
a
limited
feature
set
 are
difficult
to
customize
 Self-­‐built
plaLorms:
 are
expensive
and
Pme-­‐consuming
to
build
 require
constant
maintenance
 sPll
scale
poorly

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Solu>on:
invest
in
running
and
modifying
OJS
 Pros:
 OJS
has
80%
of
the
features
of
commercial
plaLorms
 Is
good
for
individual
journals
 Free
and
open
source
 Cons:
 Quickly
becomes
difficult
to
manage
with
mulPple
journals
 Does
not
look
great
out
of
the
box
 Many
features
required
by
professional
publishers
are
absent
or
problemaPc
(though
steadily
improving)
 E.g.
XML
rendering,
DOI
registraPon,
metrics

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Aspects
of
modifica>on
1. Improving
scalability
2. IntegraPng
external
services
3. Internal
fixes
4. Adding
features

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1.
Improving
scalability
 Need
mulPple
journals
on
one
plaLorm,
with
individual
look
and
feel,
good
performance
 Not
possible
with
vanilla
OJS
–
either
all
same
in
one
install,
or
mulPple
installs
required
 Separated
core
files
from
customized
 ConfiguraPon
loading
rewriben
 Built
separate
back
end
system
to
amalgamate
all
journal
data
for
reporPng,
centralized
display
and
metrics
 Enabled
distribuPon
over
mulPple
web,
DB
and
file
servers
 Results:
 New
journals
can
be
rolled
out
very
quickly
 Individual
journal
customizaPon
is
simple
 Sodware
updates
are
quick
and
painless
 Can
run
a
very
large
number
of
journals
without
performance
loss

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2.
Integra>ng
external
services
 XML
typeseeng
done
offshore
 Typesebers
are
automaPcally
noPfied
of
arPcles
ready
for
producPon
 Then
log
in
to
access
files,
liaise
with
authors
re.
correcPons,
upload
final
XML
 APC
billing
 Currently
manual
 IntegraPon
with
the
OAK
system
next
 External
data
repositories
 Currently
working
on
integraPon
with
Dryad,
Dataverse,
Zenodo
 InsPtuPonal
repositories
 Working
on
integraPon
with
SymplecPc,
ePrints

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3.
Internal
fixes
 Improved
XML
rendering
 Fixed
DOI
export
to
CrossRef
 Fixed
archiving
code
for
CLOCKSS
 MulPple
issues
with
submission
system

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4.
Added
features
 Professional
customisaPon
of
look
and
feel
 ConPnuous
publishing
view
of
arPcles
 Special
collecPons
 Improved
arPcle
informaPon:
how
to
cite,
license,
peer
review
 Centrally-­‐controlled
adverPsing
 ArPcle-­‐level
metrics
 ArPcle
views,
downloads
(GA),
citaPons
(CrossRef)
 Altmetrics
(tweets,
FB
likes,
Zotero
bookmarks,
Wikipedia
citaPons)
 Journal
level:
most
recent,
most
popular
 Twiber
feeds
 Integrated
Disqus
commenPng
 Automated
indexing
for
diverse
services
 Improved
spam
counter
measures

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The
resul>ng
product
 Ader
2
developer
years:
 Highly
scalable,
low
cost
plaLorm
 Enables
quick,
efficient
publishing
with
many
automated
aspects
 Full-­‐suite
of
professional
features,
many
more
being
added
 Uses:
 MulPple
individual
journals
for
small
sociePes
 Customised
journal
plaLorms
for
larger
sociePes,
with
income
generaPng
ability
to
enable
transiPon
to
open
access
 University
Press
plaLorms

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For
more
informa>on:
Gracias
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Main
plaLorm
modificaPons
to
be
released
under
GPL
in
2013