Additional Resources

OJS 3 resources #

• Learning OJS 3: A Visual Guide to Open Journal Systems offers user guides, developer information, and publishing tips for OJS 3.
• OJS 3 Demo: Explore how OJS 3 works by trying out the demo and test drive sites hosted by PKP.
• PKP School offers free video courses to assist users with various aspects of OJS 3, in both English and Spanish. You will need to create a free account and log in to the site in order to participate. The videos are also available at PKP’s YouTube channel.
• OJS Release Notes lists new features.
• PKP Docs What’s New in OJS 3 outlines interface changes for readers & editors.
• Major New Features in Upcoming OJS 3 is a pre-release blog post from 2016.

Upgrade resources #

• The Technical Upgrade guide.
• OJS upgrade documentation by PKP.
• Video overview of the upgrade process by PKP Lead Developer Alec Smecher.
• 5 Steps to OJS 3: Upgrade Planning for Service Providers - PKP blog post.
• Getting Ready for OJS 3.0: When Should I Upgrade? - PKP blog post.
• Making the Move to Open Journal Systems 3: Recommendations for a (mostly) painless upgrade - this article discusses the upgrade planning and process, includes discussion of some best practices in supporting journal teams through the upgrade, checklists, technical troubleshooting tips, and post-upgrade support strategies.
• Taking the Leap: Experiences Planning and Implementing a Migration to OJS 3 - Library Publishing Forum 2018 presentation.
• Instalación y migración a OJS 3 is a presentation in Spanish on upgrading to OJS 3.
• Upgrade OJS2 a OJS3 (sobre CentOS) is a short guide in Spanish to upgrading to OJS 3 on a server running CentOS and PHP 5.6.

Support resources #

• PKP Community Forum: PKP offers free technical support via the support forum. You may be able to find an answer by searching the questions that have already been posted, but if not, please feel free to post your question there.
• PKP Publishing Services: PKP offers a fee-based service which provides the hosting of PKP software, daily backups of your data, applying security patches, free upgrades, and priority answering your support questions. More information is available on the PKP Journal Hosting website.