[OJS 3.3] Exporting and managing reviews

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Hi everyone,

we’re starting an open-access journal with OJS 3.3 (the installation is run by our library staff, so that’s the version we have to stick with) and have some non-standard use cases.

  • We plan to publish the anonymized reviews along with the article (with the reviewers’ agreement, of course). Right now, it seems the only way to do that is to manually copy-paste the reviews into a Word doc and turn that into a PDF, which will then be appended as a galley file. Is there any way to automatically export the reviews? We’re fine with writing our own code if needed, but I have not been able to find any API calls that actually let you access reviews…

  • We would like to give authors read access to the reviews without disclosing the reviewers’ identities. This doesn’t seem possible at the moment? “Open” reviews are readable to the authors, but include the reviewers’ names, while “Anonymous” reviews are not visible for the authors.

Thanks and best, Florian

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Hum. Anyone? Any suggestions?

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Hi @floe,

For 3.5.0 (due hopefully in Q4 this year), we’re expecting to support both PDF export and JATS export (following JATS4R recommendations on review materials).

There is a proof-of-concept public reviews plugin for OJS 3.3.0-x that you might consider extending to adjust to your needs – for example, keeping reviewer names anonymous. It’s a pretty simple plugin so easy to adapt: GitHub - asmecher/publicReviews: Public reviews plugin for OJS

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Oh, that’s great, thanks! This looks like it’s almost exactly what we need, I’ll check it out.

Best, Florian