This page and its sub-pages are meant to give you a place to start in setting up your journal. There are also links to PKP School courses with more in-depth training on how to set up your journal and how to make the editorial workflows in the OJS software work for you. Besides the overview and quickstart guide, there are also guides with step by step instructions on setting up the look and feel of your journal, uploading back issues in pdf format, and copyright and creative commons in OJS.
A number of services for electronic scholarly journals are provided under the Florida Online Journals (FL OJ) program working directly with Florida higher education local librarians to publish and/or produce open access journals. Using the Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source publishing software, as the underlying system, FL OJ services include the ability to:
Official journal requests need to be submitted through and with partnership of a member library. Members may submit requests for a new journal at any time using the Florida OJ Journal Request Form and On-boarding Packet. If your institution is interested in publishing or hosting a journal with Florida Online Journals, please feel free to contact us at: help@flvc.org.
Florida OJ runs on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software maintained by the Public Knowledge Project. As of June 2023, Florida OJ is running on OJS version 3.3.0.14. Information on how to use the software, including short training modules, can be found on the Public Knowledge Project’s website, http://pkpschool.sfu.ca/. Note: Public Knowledge Project Schools will require you to register and login, but there is no fee for the courses.
Recommended for all journals: The “Setting up a Journal in OJS 3.3” course takes about 3 hours to sit through and is a good starting point for new journal managers. It covers setting up basic colors, and it goes over journal settings that can help you tie into existing programs for search and preservation.
Recommend for journals accepting submissions and completing reviews in Florida OJ: The "Editorial Workflow in OJS 3.3" course takes about 2 hours to sit through. It shows the range of workflows supported by the software, and is useful for knowing what is possible. It also links out to guidance on how to implement your desired workflows.
Full manual, Learning OJS 3.3: A Visual Guide to Open Journal Systems.
Support forum: https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/ A place where OJS users can post questions and answers with fellow OJS administrators or to search for information on doing something specific in OJS.
