Importing existing OJS journals

[ctgraham]

Seems to be a common question today:

Moving journals from one OJS instance to another

You can host multiple OJS installs on the same machine. If you can get a tar of the files and a dump of the database, you could move the existing OJS install to your host as-is. If you want to incorporate the new journal into your existing install, it becomes a little more complicated, as there is no official way to do this for a complete journal. Article and Issue export/import and User export/import is supported through the plugins. This will not transfer the configuration and workflow. T…