RIOJA Project Software Products
Introduction
The RIOJA project developed as set of APIs to enable easy set up of journals overlaid on repositories. There is a separate page with details of the RIOJA API specifications. Here we give modified software packages to start journals based on existing repositories, and to start new API-enabled ePrints-based repositories.
Overlayed Open Journal Systems
The original code is the fully-featured OJS journal system (2.1.1) for managing submission, refereeing and publication of academic papers, freely available from the Public Knowledge Project under a GNU licence. We contracted MataOme to modify the software to allow for easy submission of papers from repositories, and streamlining the refereeing and "publication" process. Changes include:
- Quick validated submission of papers using existing repository IDs
- Keyword-based matching system to speed assignment of referees and editors
- Continuous publication, using links to accepted versions of the paper hosted on the repository.
- Removal of parts not needed in an overlay journal (print publication, etc)
As in the original OJS metadata is available via standard OAI interface for harvesting (sample URL).
You can see the software demonstrated:
Software download
The modified software is freely available:
The modified journal software should work immediately with arXiv via their RIOJA interface, and also ultimately with the modified ePrints software described below.
Open issues
The following changes were planned but not yet implemented:
- Configuration of automated reminder system for editors (and authors?)
- Display of embedded LaTeX for equations in scientific papers
- Options to publish referee reports or to make referee optionally known to author
- Journal-configurable set questions for referee to answer when reviewing a paper
- Journal option to send referee reports directly to author (based on recommendation)
- Submission of papers with temporary non-public repository IDs
- Scheduling (calendars for editors etc. to monitor when they are away)
- Journal-configurable paper ID format`
- Editor option to transfer paper to different editor
- [extension] Options to work with copy editors
Currently known bugs are listed on the bug tracker. In addition arXiv currently does not have consistent support for latex and citations, so probably manual editing post-API would currently be needed.
Overlaying ePrints
We contracted ePrints and MataOme to modify the ePrints 3 software to support the RIOJA API for submitting papers hosted by ePrints to overlay journals. Changes include:
- Tracking of multiple versions of the same paper via RIOJA API
- Maintaining list of overlaid journals
- User selection of overlay journal during submission
- Display of journal states in repository
Software download
The modified software is freely available:
Antony Lewis 2008.