More than two types of contributors

Feature Requests
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Describe the problem you would like to solve
We have a particular type of article, where someone finds a previously published text, inserts a brief forward, and then includes the text or an edited subset of the text. If the original text was in another language (Latin, German etc.) then there would be both an original Author and a Translator.

So all but the first 200-300 words are by this previous (famous) author, and the person who submits it is an “Editor” or (as with a book) writing a Preface, Forward or Introduction. It is not accurate to list this person as a co-author.

Describe the solution you’d like
Ideally, allow us to define other types of contributors. If that’s too hard, then add “Editor” to “Author” and “Translator”.

Who is asking for this feature?
Tell us what kind of users are requesting this feature. Example: Journal Editors, Journal Administrators, Technical Support, Authors, Reviewers, etc.

Additional information
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Hi @joel,

You should be able to adjust this using be creating a new role:
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/en/users-and-roles#create-new-roles

and then, once created, under “Role Options” ensure that you select: “Show role title in contributor list”

Would that meet your needs/

-Roger
PKP Team

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Roger,

Thanks for the quick and thorough reply. Since only some roles show up in that menu, it didn’t occur to me to look there.

I will watch the video and discuss with the editorial board exactly what role we would like to list on the article page.

Joel

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Hi all,

Just an additional note that we’re going to be releasing a CRediT plugin for OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.3.0 and 3.4.0. See https://credit.niso.org/ for information on the NISO CRediT vocabulary. However, there are few downstream systems that accept CRediT information just yet, so it mostly just affects the article page in OJS.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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