Florida OJ is a service provided by the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) Library Services, Florida’s statewide academic library consortium. The service is available through any Florida public university or state college library.
To request a journal, have your library send a completed Florida OJ Journal Request Form and Onboarding Packet to help@flvc.org .
FLVC will set up your journal on the test server https://ojs.test.flvc.org and on the production Florida OJ site https://journals.flvc.org. Turn around time is usually within two business days.
You journal will not automatically appear on the homepage of Florida OJ, and you should send a separate request to get listed on the homepage, after you have styled your public pages and are ready to launch. It is necessary to have an incoming link from the homepage in order for any public content to display.
1. Go to https://journals.flvc.org
2. In the top right corner, click "Login" and enter your login information.
3. This keeps you on the https://journals.flvc.org home page with the list of Journals.
4. Go back up to where your user name is showing up in the top right corner. Hover your mouse over your name. Click on Dashboard.
5. Clicking on Dashboard takes you first to your Profile.
6. On the Profile page click the icon that looks like a chart next to Florida Online Journals.
7. Clicking on the chart icon will show a list of Florida Online journals that you have user account with.
8. If you just have one user account for one journal, you will just have the name of the journal along with a Back to Submissions link.
FLVC will issue you a journal on Florida OJ. Anyone working with your journal as a Journal Manager will have the ability to configure the software for a variety of publishing workflows. Your library liaison is a Journal Manager on your journal and is able to assist.
Here are some resources to get you started in configuring the software.
If you want a simple page to hold finalized PDF files:
Visit PKP Schools and work through the online course “Setting Up a Journal in OJS 3”. To get to this course, visit PKP Schools at http://pkpschool.sfu.ca/ , then click to "Courses" in the menu along the top of the page and select "Setting up a Journal in OJS 3". The course requires registration, but there is no fee. The registration is to prevent spam comments on course material. This course takes about 2 hours to complete and takes you through the journal settings that determine how the journal pages will look to the public (ie. colors, banner image, etc.) and through setting up the journal to better interact with search engines and better display for research (ie. entering an ISSN, setting up keywords for search, etc.).
Next, this Quickstart Guide has instructions on uploading PDFs (or other format) of back issues.
If you want to use publishing workflows in Florida OJ (ie. accept author submissions, perform anonymous reviews):
Think through the following questions:
Visit PKP Schools and work through the online courses “Setting Up a Journal in OJS 3” and "Editorial Workflow in OJS 3". To get to these courses, visit PKP Schools at http://pkpschool.sfu.ca/ , then click to "Courses" in the menu along the top of the page and select the course. Courses require registration, but there is no fee. The registration is to prevent spam comments on course material. "Setting up a Journal in OJS 3" covers basic set up of a journal's look and feel and settings that better share out material to search engines. It brushes on the editorial review settings. "Editorial Workflow in OJS 3" in particular covers in more detail how to implement a desired workflow in the software. The best way to approach publishing is to clearly plan out the workflow you want (using the questions above), and then click through to implement it in the software.
Step 1: Connect with your library liaison.
Hosting on Florida OJ is only available to journals coming through Florida's State University System or Florida's State College System. All requests for hosting with Florida Online Journals must come through your campus library.
The goal of the service is to further access to journal content, and journals are strongly encouraged to make content published through the service available free of charge to the public (after an embargo period, or through a separate website is fine).