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Open Journal Systems (OJS) is open source software for the management of peer-review journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project.

OJS was designed to facilitate the development of open access, peer-reviewed publishing, providing the technical infrastructure not only for the online presentation of journal articles, but also an entire editorial management workflow, including article submissions, multiple rounds of peer-review, and indexing. OJS relies upon individuals fulfilling different roles, such as the Journal Manager, Editor, Reviewer, Author, Reader, etc.

Originally released in 2001, OJS is curently in version 2.1.1 with version 2.2 expected in early 2007. OJS is written in PHP and uses either a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. It can be hosted on a UNIX-like or Windows web server.

OJS has been translated into eight languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish), with an additional nine languages (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, Hindi, Norwegian, Thai, Vietnamese) in development.

As of November 2006, OJS was being used by at least 875 journals in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. A selected list of OJS journals is available on the PKP web site.

OJS has developed a strong user community, with many active participants, and significant enhancements being contributed to the project from the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT), the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and others.

The Public Knowledge Project is also collaborating closely with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to develop scholarly research portals in Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Vietnam. Alongside the Erudit publishing system, OJS is being used in the Synergies project, creating a scholarly portal for Canadian social sciences and humanities research. OJS is also being widely used for research portals in Brazil and Catalonia.

Other open source journal management systems include: DPubS, GAPworks, Hyperjournal, ePublishing Toolkit, OpenACS, SOPS, and TOPAZ.

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