The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil has set up OJS with an impressive list of 36 journals. The pace of work in Brazil is quite amazing. Nice work!

Karla L. Hahn from the Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries has written a new report: Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing.

In addition to being thoroughly interesting, it also makes specific mention of OJS, OCS, and Synergies. Be sure to check out page 14 for the chart on "Software Supporting Library Publishing Services" for a sense of OJS market share!

We're still looking for volunteer testers for the upcoming OCS 2.1 beta release. If you're interested in getting an early look at this new version, give me a shout!

The open access British Journal of Mormon Studies not only customized their OJS interface very nicely, they are also selling print copies of their journal through Lulu.com.

This model could be a potential source of income for other journals.

If you have a chance, check out this article in the latest issue of EDUCAUSE Review: Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit

Not only does it give some great insight into how technology is changing conferences, but also gives a plug to OCS:

"Open Conference Systems from the Public Knowledge Project is an example of a powerful and freely available toolset for adjudicating, presenting, and publishing conference proceedings."

The authors:

George Siemens is Associate Director, Learning Technologies Centre, at the University of Manitoba and is Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc.

Peter Tittenberger is Director, Learning Technologies Centre, at the University of Manitoba.

Terry Anderson is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University