Allow users to sign up as Authors

We’re running an installation of OJS on a server (let’s call it example.com). We’d like to allow authors to sign themselves up to our journal, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Currently, if I go to http://example.com/journalname, I can click About → Online Submissions → Go to Registration, and get a registration page that looks like I’m going to be registering as a user on journalname. There’s even a checkbox to click if I’d like to be registered as an author.

However, what actually happens is that the newly-registered user is added to the pool of users for http://example.com, with no special permissions on journalname. I need to go into the Journal Manager screens to enroll the new user as an author on journalname.

Is there a configuration option that I missed that will allow authors to sign themselves up?

Hi @pjohanneson,

What version of OJS are you running?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Open Journal Systems 2.4.6.0, it appears.

Hi @pjohanneson,

Can you PM me the URL to your installation?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi @pjohanneson,

Do you have the “allow registration as author” setting enabled? Check Journal Setup, step 4.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

No, I did not. That was the fix. Thanks for your assistance.