I will like to ask must you always schedule a journal within an issue before publication? What happens if you want to publish immediately upon acceptance of the paper without any issue?
Also, any link for pre-print?
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Hello @Emmanuel_Nnadi,
Thanks for your question! OJS is structured more around a traditional publishing model and some things may not work quite the way you want them to, but at the same time, OJS does not require you to maintain a strict issue schedule. You could create an issue with the title “Current Publications” or similar and schedule articles to it as they become ready. You can continue to add articles to the issue after it has been published. Then when the “Current Publications” issue gets fairly full, you could rename it to “Vol X Issue Y”, and create a new “Current Publications” issue for the next batch.
There is an open feature request to introduce some changes to OJS that further facilitate continuous publishing: https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/1407/ Feel free to add any comments or suggestions here. You just need to create a free Github account in order to post. And let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind Regards,
Patricia
Public Knowledge Project Team
Hi Patricia: Thanks, this is helpful. I want to clarify one point though—if we publish the issue first and add articles over time, the issue’s published date would be earlier than the articles’. Is that expected in this approach?
Hi @BNath12,
This is quite an older thread, so may not be as relevant - what version of OJS are you using (e.g. 3.4.0-8?)
-Roger
PKP Team
Thank you. I am using OJS 3.4.0.7
Hi @rcgillis ! Have there been any changes with regard to continuous publication model in OJS 3.3-3.5?
Hi @BNath12 ! Our model is as follows: we publish a forthcoming issue on the website, name it “In press…”, then publish some articles in it immediately upon acceptance (after copyediting and proofreading). When the issue is ready to be published in the final form, we remove the title “In press”, add the issue galley and modify the actual issue publication date. After that, we update all DOIs in crossref so that the issue publication date there corresponds to the actual one. In our case in the interim yes, the issue is “published” before the articles that belong to it. However, nobody actually seems to pay attention to this discrepancy.
I think you can set the issue publication date to some date in the future, so if you know in advance what the date will be (which is not our case 
) you can set the correct pub date for the forthcoming issue.
Is this related to your inquiry here:
Continuous Publishing with OJS3.4 ?
If so, I think we should contain the discussion just to that thread? This is an older post, and we try not to revive older posts where possible, and it is better to keep things organized under one topic if they are related (as per our forum guidlines)
We provide some guidance on continuous publishing here: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/3.4/en/production-publication#use-current-issue---for-continuous-publishing
This is geared towards 3.4, though. However, most of it, I would think, would still be applicable for 3.5.
Thank you for sharing your workflow—especially around the DOI piece - I think that’s really interesting.
-Roger
PKP Team