{"id":29,"date":"2009-07-09T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-07-13T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:01:25","slug":"customizing-ojs-for-magazine-publishers-the-session-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/2009\/07\/09\/customizing-ojs-for-magazine-publishers-the-session-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing OJS for Magazine Publishers: The Session Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presenter:<\/strong> John Maxwell<\/p>\n

July 9, 2009 at12:00 noon<\/p>\n

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Background<\/strong>
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John Maxwell is currently with the Canadian Center for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser Universtiy<\/a> in Vancouver, British Columbia<\/a>.\u00a0 John’s work specifically focuses on the advantages of open journal system (OJS<\/a>) software models to be used as a framework for the Online Magazine Management Models (OMMM<\/a>) project that applies to use in the area of publishing small cultural magazines (Maxwell, 2008).<\/p>\n

Session Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Maxwell reported on the very recent initiatives of a new model for small magazine editorial publishing.\u00a0 The OMMM) project based its creation on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) with what Maxwell describes as a process with a more collaborative approach but at the same time keeps within the intent of the OJS overall concepts.<\/p>\n

Small cultural magazines do not have the exact purpose of journal publishing but there are similarities to moving from text based publishing systems into online management systems.\u00a0 The OMMM project is not at a stage of online publishing but is using the OJS concepts and applying that process to the electronic management of submissions as a starting point.<\/p>\n

With the specifics of the OJS, Maxwell’s work centers around taking some of the same ideas of OJS and applying those systems to fit into a version that would be streamlined for magazine publishing.<\/p>\n

What the OMMM project essentially produced was a translation of user interface from OJS into a more user friendly language for magazine publishing.\u00a0 As the project evolved two models of editorial governance were designed:<\/p>\n