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-shelfthemes. Rich publication metadata
Share your work in machine-readable metadata formats like Dublin Core and OAI-PMH.
Multiple languages
Born in multilingual Canada, our software supports journals publishing in one or two or as manylanguages 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 likePKP|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.
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.
