Questions about OMP

Software Support Open Monograph Press
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Hi

We have set up a pilot site to OMP as a test bed to launching a Monograph Hosting Service using this platform. Please can we have your input on the following:

  1. Can we change how OMP (and OJS) send emails so that our emails have less of a chance of being flagged by firewalls - and going directly to the Junk folder? This is particularly problematic because a lot of academics are not comfortable with computers, and may or may not think to check their junk/spam folders regularly. Or is this affected by the email security at the home institution for the OMP site?
  2. Why does the “make a new submission” box take you back to the submission information page rather than to the backend submission area?
  3. Is there a reason that OMP does not require a formal “recommendation” from each reviewer in the way that OJS does? (accept, accept with revisions, resubmit, decline, etc.)
  4. What should be included in the “references” text box on the metadata page? The entire bibliography for the manuscript?

Many thanks
Rosarie

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Hi @rcoughlan,

  1. This is a long-standing battle we’ve been waging as email servers change expectations, and unfortunately a lot of it is site-specific (both for sending and receiving servers). You might look into your sending server’s DMARC configuration (and there are lots of relevant posts on this forum). Longer term I suspect we’re going to have to make some profound changes, but they’ll align with some other things we’d like to do e.g. permitting OJS/OMP to receive as well as send emails.
  2. What specific version of OMP are you using? (Please include this with your posts.)
  3. Reviews of long-form content don’t boil down to a single recommendation as easily as they do for article-length content. We opted not to require a recommendation, in favour of having the editor look at the review at length.
  4. This is for the entire bibliography, but if your content doesn’t suit this approach (e.g. reference lists are too long), you don’t need to use it.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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We’re currently running OMP 3.1.0.0. Thanks!

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Hi @rcoughlan,

Why does the “make a new submission” box take you back to the submission information page rather than to the backend submission area?

Because it’s coded that way :slight_smile:

Basically we can’t guarantee that the user who follows that link will have an author role, or that the press is set up to allow them to self-register, so for the moment that’s a place we know they can go. This is already scheduled for improvement at [OJS] Improve submission process · Issue #1528 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub (and that’s already received some developer time).

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team