Initial Setup

Érudit collects metadata from your OJS installation in ​JATS​ XML. JATS is commonly used to publish or index journal articles.

You can configure OJS to automatically generate simple JATS documents for inclusion in Érudit. In order to do this you will need to install and enable two plugins. The process will involve these steps:

Site Administrator Steps #

The following steps can be performed within OJS by a user with the Site Administrator role.

Step 1. Install the JATS Template Plugin #

Log into your OJS installation using your Site Administrator account.

Navigate to Settings > Website > Plugins.

Click on “Plugin Gallery”.

This will show a list of available plugins for installation. Find “JATS Template Plugin”:

Click on “JATS Template Plugin” to see more information about the plugin:

(Your version of the plugin may not be the same as the version indicated above. It’s always a good idea to use the latest available version of the plugin in the Plugin Gallery.)

Click the “Install” button to install the plugin. (If you do not see the “Install” button, make sure you are logged in as a Site Administrator.) Confirm that you wish to install the plugin.

You should see a confirmation of installation:

This will install the latest available version of the plugin. (When new versions of this plugin are released, you will be able to update them here. Again, the version number you see may not be the same as the screenshot above.)

In order to provide JATS content to Érudit, you must be running JATS Template Plugin 1.0.1.0 or newer​.

Step 2. Install the OAI JATS Plugin #

Log into your OJS installation using your Site Administrator account.

Navigate to Settings > Website > Plugins.

Click on “Plugin Gallery”.

This will show a list of available plugins for installation. Find “OAI JATS Plugin”:

Click on “OAI JATS Plugin” to see more information about the plugin:

(Your version of the plugin may not be the same as the version indicated above. It’s always a good idea to use the latest available version of the plugin in the Plugin Gallery.)

Click the “Install” button to install the plugin. (If you do not see the “Install” button, make sure you are logged in as a Site Administrator.) Confirm that you wish to install the plugin.

You should see a confirmation of installation:

This will install the latest available version of the plugin. (Again, the version number you see may not be the same as the screenshot above.)

In order to provide JATS content to Érudit, you must be running the latest version of the OAI JATS plugin suitable for your version of OJS. The next step will demonstrate how to enable and upgrade the plugins in order to keep them up to date.

Step 3. Enabling and Upgrading the Plugins #

Enabling the Plugins #

Now that you have installed both the JATS Template Plugin and OAI JATS Plugin, you will need to enable them.

This will need to be done once for each journal you wish to include in Érudit.

Navigate to Settings > Website > Plugins.

Click on “Installed Plugins”.

Look in the plugin list for “JATS Template Plugin”:

Click the checkbox on the right to enable the plugin. You should receive a confirmation:

Now find the “OAI JATS Plugin”:

Click the checkbox beside that to enable it as well. You should receive a confirmation:

Don’t forget to repeat these steps for any other journals you wish to include in Érudit.

Updating the Plugins #

The plugins used for harvesting your journal’s metadata are occasionally updated to fix bugs or improve functionality. You may be instructed to update the plugins by Coalition Publica, or you may choose to update the plugins as part of regular maintenance.

Following any upgrade to your OJS, ensure that your plugins are updated to the latest version suitable for your version of OJS by updating via the Plugin Gallery.

First, navigate to Settings > Website > Plugins. Switch to the “Plugin Gallery” tab.

Navigate to the relevant plugin and click its name to open this window.

Click the upgrade button if available and confirm that you wish to update the plugin. If the upgrade button is unavailable, your plugin is already up to date.

You will see a confirmation after the upgrade completes successfully.

Although it is possible to update plugins in OJS by downloading the latest version from Github, it is possible that newer versions may not be compatible with your particular version OJS, so please always update plugins from the Plugin Gallery unless otherwise instructed.

Step 4. Review your Journal Settings #

There are several journal settings that should be properly configured in order for the data to be collected by Érudit. For each journal that you wish to include, make sure that:

• For each of your journal’s sections, the “Identify items published in this section as a(n)…” field is set to one of the suggested JATS article-type values. Please note that “research-article” is used only for peer-reviewed research. If you are unsure how to identify the items in the section, “other” is acceptable.
• Your journal settings are complete, e.g.:
  • An ISSN has been specified
  • The journal title is the same as you have registered at issn.org
  • A publisher is specified in Settings > Journal > Masthead
  • Copyright
    • Make sure that the copyright holder of the articles (author, journal or other) is properly identified in Settings > Distribution > Permissions.
    • Make sure, when you schedule an article for publication, to attach the permissions to it (copyright holder and copyright year).

Step 5. Check your Distribution Settings #

Under Settings > Distribution > Access, you will see a series of settings:

Whichever of the first 3 access settings you choose for your journal, ensure that “Enable OAI access to content” is checked. Save the settings.

If your access settings are configured

• to require subscriptions to access some or all of its contents, or
• not to use OJS to publish the journal’s content online

… see specific instructions in the Subscriptions and Non-Publishing Use of OJS section of this document.

System Administrator Steps #

The following step requires back-end access to OJS by a system administrator. You may need to contact your hosting provider or technical lead to perform this step.

Step 6. Rebuild Your Search Index #

This step may require the help of your system administrator, as it requires back-end access to a file on the server on which OJS is installed.

• Ensure that OJS knows about your server’s text extraction tools: check your config.inc.php file in the [search] section to make sure your server’s locations for these tools are specified.
• If you had to modify your config.inc.php file to enable PDF indexing, you will also have to rebuild your search index. You can do this by running the following command on your server, in the OJS web root:

php tools/rebuildSearchIndex.php

NOTE: This step is required only if you have recently enabled PDF indexing.

• You can check that the index has been successfully rebuilt by searching for text that only appears in a PDF (ie. not in other submission metadata stored by OJS, such as title or abstract fields).

In addition to configuring your OJS for Coalition Publica, this step will also help OJS to index PDF documents for its own search indexing.