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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Open source publishing platforms for scholarly research

LibCognizance Book publishing , Journal Publishing Platform

Now, we have come up with a list of free, open-source software to disseminate research and manage the entire scholarly publishing workflow, from submission to indexing, in case of books, journals, and preprints. These are the publishing software by Public Knowledge Project (PKP). From the beginning, PKP has been developing publishing platforms, such as OJS, OMP, and OPS, based on the principles and licensing of free and open-source software (FOSS). In its effort to support the publishing of open access journals, books, and preprints, PKP is an integral part of the scholarly publishing ecosystem, offering infrastructure that is as open as the science it aims to support.

For Journals	Open Journal Systems (OJS) is the world’s most widely used journal management and publishing software. Manage your entire researcher-to-reader workflow for submission, peer review, and production from one place. Download OJS See Demo See Showcase
For Books	Open Monograph Press (OMP) is an end-to-end solution for publishing books with full metadata. Publish your monographs and edited volumes with full metadata for worldwide dissemination and discovery. Download OMP See Demo See Showcase
For Preprints	Open Preprint Systems (OPS) provides everything needed to run a fully-featured preprint server for researchers. Accelerate research by allowing researchers to upload datasets, revise papers, and link preprints to the final published work. Download OPS See Demo See Showcase
Hosting Services	PKP Publishing Services can host your OJS, OMP, and OPS installation on professionally maintained and secured servers with guaranteed uptime. Hosting Plans

Most Popular Open Source and free Library Management Software

LibCognizance Integrated Library Systems (ILSs) , Library Management Software

Most Popular Open Source

and free Library Management Software

How the libraries can get more benefits from Open Source Software than their proprietary counterparts

LibCognizance Content Management Systems (CMS) , Digital Repository Systems

In the era of web 2.0, when the internet is transitioning into web 3.0. Software systems and tools are critical for functioning and services in today’s libraries. There are many cost-effective options of Open Source software and tools available to librarians for managing library resources and providing seamless services. Open source products aim at providing an effective and continuously evolving service that is free for use. Source code is open in Open Source Software (OSS) and can be changed and reused by others. Whereas in the proprietary software, the source code is not available.

CORAL: an open source Electronic Resource Management (ERM) System

LibCognizance Open source software ,

CORAL: an open source Electronic Resource

Management (ERM) System

CORAL (Centralized Online Resource Acquisition and Licensing) is originally developed by University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries, released in the year 2010. It runs on PHP 5, MySQL 5 and webserver. CORAL provides libraries the option of collecting information of all their electronic resources at one central place and reorganize their acquisition, licensing, and providing usage statistics. Being open source, it provides libraries struggling with dwindling budgets, a new option for organizing their electronic resources.

URL link: http://erm.library.nd.edu

Compatibility: HTML, LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol)

Language, Database: Linux, Window, Mac and

JavaScript, PHP5, MySQL5

Its features promise to fit local needs.

Open source software, so no annual fees.
No need of huge investment for implementation.
Easy installation.
It has web-interface.
Its modular infrastructure allows phased in implementation.
It has four major modules such as Resource, Licensing, Organizations and Usage Statistics (focus on specific resources) and other module Management is meant to store documents, such as policies, processes, and procedures, related to the overall management of electronic resources.
All the modules are connected and information included in the various modules is linked together.
Field values and workflow steps can be easily customized with the CORAL administration tool. And every library can create its own distinct workflow for ordering, licensing, invoice approval, payment, and activation, moreover distinct workflow can be created for different types of resources like journals through consortia, journals through EBSCO, for journals in which payments are made directly to the publishers or journals through vendors and free resources also.
Automated emails are generated to indicate staff when new task is available.

Licensing module: provides the facility of organizing licenses of resources. It allows the uploading of digital format licenses in to CORAL, attaching the licenses to the resources especially when multiple resources (like journal packages, ebooks packages and databases) are governed by single license. It allows searching the licenses by vendor name or product name and easily checking all information about licenses.

Resource module: library can gather the information about general product descriptions, acquisition data, access parameters, cataloging metadata, and information about contacts and accounts.

Organization module: keeps the vendor information. Its organization module comes preloaded with Organization’s names and organization names aliases.

Usage statistics module: this module lets the staff to generate their own reports. It comes predefined with six reports for viewing roll-ups, specific title usage and top journal uses. It allows management of statistics vendor vise and publisher vise. Any type of suspicious activity regarding abnormal downloading of a journal articles or excess downloading in one month can also be checked.

To know more: http://coral-erm.org/