Want to publish an open access journal, but you don’t want to license a commercial journal management system, develop your own system, or to do it all by tedious HTML hand-coding? Here’s summary information about two existing open source e-journal management systems (and one emerging system) that may do the trick.
- "HyperJournal is a software application that facilitates the administration of academic journals on the Web. Conceived for researchers in the Humanities and designed according to an intuitive and elegant layout, it permits the installation, personalization, and administration of a dedicated Web site at extremely low cost and without the need for special IT-competence. HyperJournal can be used not only to establish an online version of an existing paper periodical, but also to create an entirely new, solely electronic journal."
- Overview
- Documentation
- Download
Open Journal Systems, Public Knowledge Project
- "Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research."
- Open Journal Systems (Overview)
- FAQ
- OJS Technical Reference
- Download
DPubS (Digital Publishing System), Cornell University Library (In development)
- "DPubS’ ground-breaking software system will enable publishers to cost-effectively organize, deliver, present and publish scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse."
- About DPubS
- FAQ
Postscript: Peter Suber suggests adding several other software packages, including:
I now have Hyperclip 1.1 as my e-journal. But my problem is it does’nt have a spellchecker (I am not the best speller on the planet) thats why I also need a spellchecker. Hyperclip has a tree structure which is great but I also need a spellchecker for the editor. Does Hyperjournal have a spellchecker? pljames@brmemc.net
I now have Incredimail which has colored&pictured stationary and the cursive fonts I like. I also have Hyperclip with tree structure for listing programs and backgound stationary and fonts I like. Does your e-journal have something like this. Thank you. pljames@brmemc,net