Via digital humanities guru Dan Cohen, I learned about an exciting new Open Access initiative. I’ve long known about the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is used to power many peer-reviewed Open Access journals, but it seems that one of the people involved in that project, John Willinsky, is taking it to a new level with his proposed Open Monograph Press (OMP). As far as I can tell OMP is basically the same idea as OJS, with one important difference:
Our technical approach to monograph publishing involves one substantial change in software development over the approach used previously by the Public Knowledge Project. After building dedicated systems both for conferences and for journals, we are merging the software from these systems into a series of common modules that can be recombined in various forms to produce systems for journals, conferences, and monographs. The systems will share modules, and take advantage of a common platform for purposes of upgrading the software, adding translations, and other developments.
OMP’s great extensibility allows for a wide variety of uses and new features, from annotation, to scheduling, to financial transactions, etc. The many possible uses are described in his paper. It seems like a really exciting project!
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