Journal name change in OJS 3.3

Hello, we are currently publishing several journals on OJS 3.3 with an upgrade to 3.4 scheduled for later this year. After 10 years in publication, one of our journals is interested in (slightly) changing their name. This is not a new journal, rather an ongoing publication seeking to (slightly) change their name to better reflect the content.

Simply updating the title in the Journal Settings, updating the “About the Journal” page to note the history of the journal and its names over time, and modifying the journal name and acronym anywhere it appears on the journal site seems easy enough, but I’m assuming there is more that is needed. Maybe? Creating a new journal in OJS is not the desired path for differentiating past issues (those under the current name) from future issues (those under the new name); the journal editors would like to keep using the existing production instance but not run into any problems with publishing new issues under a (slightly) different name.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Hi @nwojcik,

We give some advice around this here:
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/journal-policies-workflows/en/journal-information#when-a-journal-title-changes

One thing in particular, is, that is recommended that you get a new ISSN when getting a name change.

-Roger
PKP Team

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Perfect. Thank you, @rcgillis!