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MUN OJS Server: http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/
Project Manager: Lisa Goddard
Memorial University Libraries have partnered in the Synergies project, a nationally funded effort to create a distributed publishing platform for electronic journals. We have recently received grant money from Atlantic Synergies to fund the implementation of an Open Journals System (OJS) here at the university.
The OJS platform provides a full suite of services for creating and hosting on-line journals, including mechanisms for article submission, peer-review workflow, journal layout, reader access, and long-term archiving. The hardware and software infrastructure is complete, and we currently have four active journals. Memorial Libraries are seeking faculty members to partner with us in this project.
OJS will be of interest to faculty members who are planning to launch a new electronic journal, those who are looking for an electronic delivery platform for journals that currently exist only in paper, or those who would like to repatriate an electronic journal currently hosted elsewhere. We are also very pleased to host student journals. The library will provide technical support and OJS training. Journal content will be added to our digital archive to ensure accessibility over time.
Although all types of journals may be hosted on the OJS system, the library has a particular commitment to supporting Open Access journals. We will actively seek relationships with other university stakeholders who share our desire to bring Canadian research into the mainstream of worldwide research discourse using a cost-effective public/not-for-profit partnership to maximize knowledge dissemination.
List of potential content partners
Atlantic Synergies Resources
Memorial is one of six regional partners in the Atlantic Synergies project which is led by UNB. The UNB Electronic Text Centre OJS journal collection can be accessed here:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/index.php?id=57
There is an Atlantic Synergies wiki available here, but most content is password protected:
http://etc.hil.unb.ca/synergies/wiki/
Several relevant sessions were delivered at the Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities, 2008:
Journal Management and Publication Using OJS
XML for Primary Source Texts (and others)
The Public Knowledge Project
OJS is open-source software that is developed by the Public Knowledge Project. This group maintains an active web presence, providing documentation and support for OJS, and all of its related plug-ins. They also develop Open Conference Systems, Open Monograph Systems, and other software applications that may eventually be of interest to Memorial. PKP hosts an annual conference. CLA's Open Access Interest Group (of which I am currently co-convenor) will be hosting a pre-conference session this year in Vancouver.