We want to publish individual articles on our journal’s website, but currently we can only upload entire issues/numbers. How do we adjust the settings to allow for publishing a single article? Like this: https://pedagogikkogkritikk.no/index.php/ntpk
We will be publishing issues/special issues, but we’re wondering about the possibility of publishing standalone articles between issues.
Have any of you encountered this way of publishing, or do you know of any journals using OJS that do it this way? It’s specifically about publishing individual articles without creating a new issue.
I see there are some other threads about this issue, but they are quite old, so I wonder whether there are any updates in newer versions of OJS? We use OJS 3.4.0.8.
Hmmm… do you know the mechanism through which they are uploading the entire issues? Is it Quick Submit? I wonder if they check Distribution → Access → OJS will not be used to publish the journal’s contents online to see if that option is selected.
There’s a workflow coming in OJS 3.6.0 to do this – see #9295 for some details, and there’s a walk-through of this in our last Dev Leads webinar on Youtube (which I see now isn’t listed, but I’ve pinged out comms folks for that). Meanwhile, I think most journals use the Forthcoming plugin, or make a dummy issue for the purpose.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
@rcgillis: This is a completely new journal, so they havn’t uploaded anything yet.
@asmecher: Interesting to know there will be a workflow for this is 3.6.0! Which plugin are you referring to? Is it a plugin called Forthcoming? I can not find this in the plugin gallery.
As Alec indicated, there are ways to get something similar to this now, but they all involve creating an issue. It might be helpful here to distinguish between publishing an issue that already has all of the articles attached and publishing an empty issue and and then adding articles to it as they are ready.
Several of our journals create an issue for the year or part of a year, publish the empty issue (or with one article) and just add articles to it as they’re ready. If they want to provide an issue PDF at the end of the time period, they can collect all of the articles and combine them into that PDF and upload it as the Issue Galley.
The disadvantage of this approach is that there is no area on the journal site that makes public articles not yet assigned to an issue, but I’m not sure what the use case/benefit would be to make an article public, but wait to assign the article to a future issue. Can someone please share why a journal would want to do this?