Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
Hi Everyone, This is an interesting discussion. I am really interested in using an eJournal solution in conjunction with an institutional repository. Has anyone done anything with Southampton's EPrints repository as a basis for an electronic journal. David Kane Waterford Institute of Technology
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
NYU is looking at e-publishing in general and how it ties in with preservation requirements. Have any of you done any work with PDF/A and generating access files from that format? We have a number of books that will be converted to the pdf format. We're looking at PDF/ A for ingestion into our preservation repository(a DSpace instance) and generating access files from it. How easy/difficult was it to generate a workflow for working with PDFs, generating PDF/As, and access files from PDF/As. Thanks. Esha Esha Datta Programmer/Analyst Digital Library Technology Services Bobst Library New York University On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Ross Singer wrote: As an alternative, I think Georgia Tech has done work integrating OJS (and OCS) with DSpace. -Ross. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Michael J. Giarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Sunny, I believe Rutgers has done some work integrating OJS with the Fedora repository architecture. Hopefully someone from RU is listening and can chime in if this work is still relevant. -Mike On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Sunny Yoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? __ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Esha Datta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NYU is looking at e-publishing in general and how it ties in with preservation requirements. Have any of you done any work with PDF/A and generating access files from that format? We have a number of books that will be converted to the pdf format. We're looking at PDF/ A for ingestion into our preservation repository(a DSpace instance) and generating access files from it. How easy/difficult was it to generate a workflow for working with PDFs, generating PDF/As, and access files from PDF/As. One more vote for OJS, here -- we're running the Journal of Insect Science[1] with it, very successfully. With respect to generating HTML and PDFs, my understanding (it's a little fuzzy) is that we have manuscripts converted to XML by a third-party, and then use a combination of XSLT and Prince to generate professional-quality documents. Prince isn't cheap, but man, if it isn't good at what it does. If you were gonna start at this again, you might be able to build a wrapper around Gecko or WebKit to do the work... but that'd take time. IIRC, it's all pretty cheap (dunno if I can disclose our XML processing rate -- suffice to say, it's cheaper than undergrads), and takes somewhere in the 3-4 hours per article timeframe. I think there's a fairly good potential for economies of scale, were we to add more titles. A great person to talk to is Andrew Gough [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- he developed most of the workflow and procedures we use at Madison (I've copied him here, in case this message contains gross inaccuracies). Cheers, -Nate [1]: http://insectscience.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
Since I work at Cornell I should probably mention an e-journal publishing solution that was developed here and has been in use for many years. It's called DPubs (www.dpubs.org). I haven't used it much myself but I've done some code reviews on it and it's a well designed, flexible, and easy to use system. I From their feature list page: Scalable, single platform for electronic publishing. Supports the publication of multiple formats from the same platform. The system comes preconfigured to publish journals, monographs, and conference proceedings, and it can be configured to publish other formats. Rich presentation features. Permits publishers to tailor the appearance and identity of a publication using DPubS rich presentation features. Different publications on the same system may have their own look and feel, giving publishers and content owners subtle branding opportunities. Multiple business models. Supports multiple business models: both open-access and fee-based models, that is, subscription or pay-per-view options Greater exposure and visibility of publications. Compliant with the OAI-MHP 2.0 protocol, DPubS allows OAI service providers to harvest metadata records for its content and thus permits implementers to share metadata with others. Full text can easily be made accessible to Google Scholar and other search services. Administrative management tools for nontechnical staff. Staff have Web-based access to administrative functions such as adding new publications, defining collections, submitting content and subscription data (for publishers or data providers), viewing content and subscription-data submission queues, loading content, loading subscription data, configuring OAI services, etc. Interoperability with institutional repositories. DPubS can be used to provide publishing capabilities on top of institutional repositories such as http://fedora.info/Fedora (DSpace forthcoming early2007). This capability can be extended to other repository systems. Flexible and extensible handling of file and metadata formats. DPubS is preconfigured to work with typical full-text file formats (PDFs, Word files, PowerPoint presentations, HTML files, etc.). With simple configuration, other formats can be added, as well as metadata formats. Modular architecture allowing easy extension and customization. DPubS is based on an open-services architecture that allows for the rapid addition of enhancements and extensions that users may develop. John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ithaca, NY
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
Sunny Yoon wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Anything specific you are asking? Looking for? We have installed OJS successfully. We tested it in the library to make sure it behaved predictably then passed it on to our campus IT because the Journal Publishing was going to be a University rather than a Library Project. It is fairly straight forward and most of the problems we had with it were not with the software but administrative. http://journals.uic.edu Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? I listened to a BePress Sales pitch. Looked very *shiny* and combines both of these quite nicely. ./fxk
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
Sunny, I've had experience with bepress.com's Digital Commons/Edikit combo for journal publication at http://repositories.cdlib.org/, although for up-to-date information you should contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the California Digital Library. The best thing about this is the integration of the institutional repository with journal production software. It is really quite seamless, since it's simply a matter of hiding or exposing the journal production piece -- everything else (most notably the upload process) remains the same. The benefit of this is that anyone using the IR already knows how to use large chunks of the journal production system. I can attest to the simplicity and power of the system, and about the only drawback I can think to note is the cost. It has been very successful at the University of California, with uploads to it pretty much every day (I know because I've kept my current awareness search going there), which is a usage record of which any institution would be proud. In sum, I highly recommend it if you can afford it, and in the end I think it is probably worth it. Roy On 4/4/08 9:36 AM, Sunny Yoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? __ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357 --
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
Hey Sunny, I believe Rutgers has done some work integrating OJS with the Fedora repository architecture. Hopefully someone from RU is listening and can chime in if this work is still relevant. -Mike On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Sunny Yoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? __ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
As an alternative, I think Georgia Tech has done work integrating OJS (and OCS) with DSpace. -Ross. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Michael J. Giarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Sunny, I believe Rutgers has done some work integrating OJS with the Fedora repository architecture. Hopefully someone from RU is listening and can chime in if this work is still relevant. -Mike On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Sunny Yoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? __ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
Hi Sunny, If you have any questions about starting up with OJS, feel free to post to the support forum at http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/ or contact the team through the website at http://pkp.sfu.ca/ . We'd love to hear your requirements for integration with IRs and other services. Mark Sunny Yoon wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? __ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357 -- Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.6959 / Fax: 778.782.3023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/
Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journal publishing software
University of Prince Edward Island is also looking at integrating OJS and Fedora. Mark Leggot is the contact there. In general OJS has a fairly flexible import/export framework, and someone has written a METS export plugin of OCS (the conference management version of OJS) that looks promising. There has been no movement on web-services oriented integration but we are tossed around the idea of using SWORD as an ingest protocol. Mark Michael J. Giarlo wrote: Hey Sunny, I believe Rutgers has done some work integrating OJS with the Fedora repository architecture. Hopefully someone from RU is listening and can chime in if this work is still relevant. -Mike On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Sunny Yoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here on the list have any experience with e-journal publishing software? Currently, we were looking at Open Journal Systems (OJS) from York University, and I'd like to hear if others have had experiences with either OJS or any other equivalent means of e-journal publication. Also, have any of you integrated these into existing infrastructures such as your institutional repositories? __ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357 -- Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Voice: 778.782.6959 / Fax: 778.782.3023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/
