Relawan Jurnal Indonesia and PKP invite journal managers, editors, and system administrators using OJS 2 to upgrade to OJS 3 in this free 2-day workshop.
This is the 4th event on journal upgrading in Indonesia supported by PKP as our commitment to encourage 5000 journals in Indonesia which are using OJS 2 and introduce our latest features and plugins in OJS 3.
The importance of supporting upgrades from OJS 2 to 3 and beyond cannot be emphasized enough. There are still many journals on OJS 2 globally, often because of upgrading challenges due to resource gaps and limited technical capacities.
Importance of Upgrading and Plugins
Staying with older versions may pose problems for a journal’s stability and security. Therefore, PKP’s support in upgrading will positively impact journal development, functionality, discoverability, and regional contexts.
There are many excellent reasons to consider upgrading sooner, rather than later:
- Security first: Running unsupported or retired versions of OJS can leave your journal open to malicious attacks. Outdated versions of the software may have known vulnerabilities that can be exploited.
- Save time and resources in the future: As versions age, they may no longer be compatible with the server environment of your hosting organization. As those systems (PHP, MYSQL, etc) are upgraded, old versions of OJS may no longer work or will have a more difficult upgrade path.
- Get better features: Newer versions are more functional and efficient, and offer dramatic improvements in usability and performance. These changes can help make life easier, and save time, for journal managers, editors and authors, and also for the technical support teams managing the software.
- Easier planning: With an LTS (Long-Term Support) policy in place, time-crunched journals and organizations which may struggle with frequent upgrades can rely on a more predictable upgrade schedule, allowing for better planning.
Plugins add features, functionality, and interoperability with other services. For example, plugins can add fields to forms, change templates, save new information, exchange information, modify authentication procedures, create new pages or change existing screens in the application.
Workshop Details
Dates, time, and topic:
- Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm WIB which is also 24 February at 11pm PST (for journal managers, editors and system administrators)
- Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at 2pm WIB which is also 25 Feb at 11pm PST (live demonstration for the system administrators)
Presenter: Jonas Raoni Soares da Silva, PKP Systems Developer
Format: Zoom online webinar (provided by RJI)
Registration link: https://bit.ly/WorkshopUpgradeOJS3
Language: presented in English (brief translation in Bahasa Indonesia)
Target audiences: journal managers, editors and system administrators who use OJS version 2 in Indonesia and wish to upgrade to OJS version 3
Workshop Aims
- To help the system administrators on upgrading their journals from OJS 2 to OJS 3.
- To encourage the journal managers and editors to upgrade their journals to experience the new publishing feature, plugins, and current security measures.
- To inform the journal managers and editors how to be prepared before the upgrading process.
About PKPers at the event: Jonas and Maria
Leading the workshop will be Jonas Raoni Soares da Silva, PKP Systems Developer. Jonas has developed, maintained, and contributed to some key services for PKP, such as the PKP Index (now retired), Beacon data, and PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). He also contributes to the development of PKP applications and works closely with PKP Publishing Services (PKP PS) hosted clients helping them realize their development projects.
For those who have not learned yet, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce Maria Lamury, our first Local Liaison in Jakarta, Indonesia. Maria has been working with scholarly journals for the past 7 years, and brings with her expertise around OJS and information technology for libraries.
As a result of Maria’s efforts in the Local Liaison role, several event series have come together as a partnership with contributions from Crossref, University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), and Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI). Please look forward to research outputs (in press) from Maria and colleagues.
About Relawan Jurnal Indonesia
“Indonesian Journal Volunteers (RJI) was established on the initiative of one of the journal managers in Yogyakarta and other journal managers in other regions such as Bandung, Makassar, South Sumatra, and East Java and other regions. RJI is a volunteer movement that voluntarily provides contributions of ideas and energy related to the management of electronic journals to other journal managers in universities, research institutions and others throughout Indonesia without discrimination and without categorizing.” Learn more at the RJI website.
