Open Source Solutions for Journal Publishing

Coordinator: Michelle Pearse, Harvard Law School Library

Speakers: Jeff Dunn, Web Coordinator, Harvard Law School ; Valeri Craigle, Assistant Librarian, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah; Tom Dodson, Project Coordinator, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Co-Developer of Yana: An Open-Source Template for Scholarly Journals to Develop Mobile Applications and developer of journal publishing in Drupal; potential speaker on using OJS

*For one section of talk, there might be a little bit of overlap with sessions on developing e-books.  Changes could be made based on discussion with other session(s).

There are many options for publishing journals, including some that are open source. This program focuses on 3 systems: OJS, Wordpress and Drupal. Panelists will discuss their experiences implementing these systems for their own journals. Topics include; steps taken in planning a site; criteria used to evaluate systems; advantages/disadvantages of the system(s) they have tried; and whether they plan to continue with the system they are using and future development.  Speakers will also share their experience with open source, free and low-cost tools for publishing journal content in mobile friendly formats.