OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEMS

Manage your entire researcher-to-reader workflow for

submission, peer review, and production from one place
with OJS, the world’s most widely used end-to-end
scholarly publishing platform.

Publish articles and issues online and have them fully

indexed in global discovery services like Google Scholar,
Crossref, DOAJ, and many others.

DOWNLOAD
Download and install OJS on your own server.

DOCUMENTATION
Our technical documentation for sysadmins, plugin developers, and
theme builders.
USER GUIDES
Tutorials and step-by-step guides for librarians, publishers and editorial
managers.

EVERYTHING A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL

NEEDS
1

SUBMIT
Invite authors to submit to your journal through a configurable, step-by-
step submission wizard.
2

REVIEW
Select peer reviewers, assign due dates, and send reminders to stay on
schedule.
3

PUBLISH
Collect your articles, editorials and reviews into issues and publish them
online in a mobile-friendly website.
4

DISTRIBUTE
Drive the dissemination and discovery of your work through Google
Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, OAI-PMH metadata harvesters, and more.

KEY FEATURES
Powerful, flexible software that is built to meet the needs of journals in
every country, language and discipline.
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-shelf themes.
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 many languages 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
like PKP|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.
 TRUSTED BY INSTITUTIONS AROUND
THE WORLD
PKP’s open source software is being used around the globe –
improving the quality and access to academic research.

“With OJS we can easily host more than a hundred small journals in many
languages. That has lowered the cost of publishing and helped more
Finnish journals make the switch to open access.”
-Antti-Jussi Nygård, Coordinator, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

SHOWCASE JOURNALS
NOASP
Journal of Digital Social Research
Athenea Digital
Journal of Tibetan Literature
La Revista Digital: Actividad Física y Deporte
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HOW IT WORKS
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• Authors submit to your journal through an easy, step-by-step
wizard. Remind them of your journal formatting guidelines and
optionally collect metadata like keywords right from the start.
• Authors can upload as many files as they need through a drag-and-
drop interface and distinguish the main article text from
supporting materials.
• Editors can search and filter their submissions to track them
through the submission, review, copyediting and production
stages. Managing editors can assign editors and monitor each
editor’s assignments.
• Assign peer reviewers to conduct anonymous or open review, set
due dates with automated reminders, and see when their
responses are overdue.
• Enter rich publication metadata such as keywords and references
before it is published to discovery services like Google Scholar,
DOAJ, Crossref, DataCite and PubMed.
• Publish articles directly to a mobile-friendly website with full-text
downloads in PDF, HTML and other formats. Use any one of our
themes or code your own.
 • Full support for issue- and volume-based publishing, with issue
sections, descriptions and cover images.
• Get detailed usage statistics on views and downloads for every
article you publish.
• Keep tabs on the progress of your editorial team with statistics on
acceptance and rejection rates, time to the first decision, and
more.
• A configurable user role system lets you adapt the system for
small editorial collectives or run a streamlined publishing pipeline
with editors, copyeditors and production assistants.
• Publish in more than one language with fully multilingual
publication metadata.
DOWNLOAD & INSTALL

TRY A DEMO

USED AROUND THE WORLD

More than 30,000 journals in 150 countries use OJS to publish research
in 60+ languages, making it the most widely used scholarly publishing
software in the world.
GLOBAL USAGE DATA
CHOOSE A LOOK
Explore demos of our free official themes. Select a theme, choose your
colors, upload a logo and you’re ready to launch. If you need more
control over the look and feel of your site, our theming guide makes it
easy for a developer to build a fully custom design.
EXPLORE THEMES
HOSTING & OTHER SERVICES
Want to focus on publishing and have the technical work of installation,
hosting, troubleshooting, and upgrades taken care of? PKP offers complete
hosting and support plans for OJS, OMP, and OPS, plus training,
consulting, and custom development.
EXPLORE HOSTING SERVICES
FEATURED CLIENTS
Journal of Tibetan Literature
The Forum on Education Abroad
Canadian Geriatrics Journal

GET HELP & SUPPORT

There’s plenty of help when you need it. Learn what’s available
from PKP and our community of thousands of scholarly
communications professionals.

TRAINING
Get your whole team up and running quickly with these training
resources, including how to set up a journal, best practices in
publishing, and a full video course for editors.

DOCUMENTATION
Comprehensive documentation on how to install and use our software,
along with helpful guides on how to get indexed, keeping your software
up-to-date and secure, and a whole lot more.

COMMUNITY FORUM
Join hundreds of editors and publishers on our Forum, where our
community asks and answers questions, and shares tips on how to
achieve their publishing goals.
EXPLORE SUPPORT
THE PKP STORY
For more than two decades, PKP has helped researchers, scholarly
societies, and academic libraries take back control of the scholarly
publishing in the service of they and their colleagues’ work.
VIEW PKP TIMELINE
WHY OPEN SOURCE
The principles and practices of open source software enable everyone
to participate in open access publishing, because scholarly
infrastructure should be as open as the science.
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