This post on ORCID and OJS in Indonesia is part of the inaugural issue of PKP’s Newsletter, “Archipelago”.
Indonesia overwhelmingly accounts for the largest regional community of OJS users in the world (Beacon Data, 2022). In a 2022 publication authored by PKP Research Associates Saurabh Khanna and Jon Ball, along with PKP Co-Scientific Directors John Willinsky and Juan Pablo Alperin, the authors highlighted that Indonesia is home to 11,535 journals (45% of global installations) using PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS)! This number has since grown significantly.
We at PKP take great pride in the extensive global adoption of our software, as it aligns with our commitment to support research as a global public good. The use of OJS in regions and nations, including Indonesia, that have been marginalized or excluded from dominant Euro-American publishing regimes helps foster bibliodiversity allowing for greater focus on subject matter relevant to the “Global South”.
PKP and ORCiD have a long history of working together. In August of 2023, PKP was named an awardee of ORCiD’s Global Participation Fund (GPF). This fund provides financial support to organizations building ORCiD communities of practice through outreach, training, and technical support. Since receiving this award, PKP’s community team has wasted no time beginning our efforts to deepen our relationship with the OJS using communities in Indonesia.
On November 29th, 2023, Juan Pablo Alperin and I attended an in-person event at Simon Fraser University where we had the pleasure of meeting representatives from Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Esa Unggul, Universitas Indonesia, among many more, setting the stage for upcoming campus visits in Indonesia in February 2024. In addition to this, John Willinskly spoke at a Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI) event, Collaboration Towards a Global Community, on December 8th, 2023. PKP has also partnered with ORCiD to host a webinar for the OJS and ORCiD user communities focused on OJS-ORCiD interoperability held on December 14th, 2023.
During our recent webinar in partnership with ORCiD, we were thrilled to discover that OJS stands out as the top integration choice for ORCiD member organizations. There are currently 150 instances of OJS using the ORCID Member API, with a total of 104,606 ORCiD records linked through OJS. Additionally, OJS has updated 24,295 records, and there are three integrations with the Open Preprint Systems (OPS). At the same webinar, Dr. Hery Purnobasuki, Professor and Head of the Institute of Innovation, Journal Development, Press, and Intellectual Property Rights at Universitas Airlangga, shared,
“… Since 2015, the Indonesian Ministry of Higher Education stipulated the obligation to use an electronic journal system for applying for national accreditation.”
This requirement prompted the implementation of OJS 2.4.8.1. By 2022, Universities Airlangga upgraded their 102 journals to version 3.3.0.10, aiming to enhance the overall user experience of journal management.
Continuing PKP’s dedication to enhancing its support for regions that rely on and benefit from our software, PKP will be visiting Indonesia to meet with Indonesian universities, as well as scholarly societies, publishers, and government entities in February of 2024. This project will focus on opportunities to explore ways to strengthen long-term collaborations, ensure future versions of OJS are developed with the needs of Indonesian editors in mind, and will facilitate the transition of Indonesia’s impressive number of OJS instances to the Long-Term Support version of OJS.
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