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  • May 27, 2024

    OJS version 3.4 upgrade for Openjournals

    Since Monday 27 May, Openjournals has received a new update. The Open Journals Software is now running on version 3.4. With this, users now have access to a number of useful new features.

    Openjournals uses Open Journals Software (OJS), developed by the Canadian Public Knowledge Project (PKP). PKP works steadily to further develop OJS and releases upgrades on a regular basis. The Openjournals team has prepared the upgrade to OJS 3.4 by trying out the new version in a test environment and detecting and updating bugs.

    The 3.4 update includes new features and improvements aimed at streamlining the editorial process, improving the user experience and increasing overall efficiency for journal managers and administrators. From a revamped interface to notify authors of editorial decision-making to a centralised DOI management system, OJS 3.4 offers a range of tools designed to make scholarly publishing more intuitive. The main enhancements to this version are:

    • New interface for e-mails about editorial decisions, allowing editors to choose from multiple templates. For example, since a regular issue and a themed issue have different lead times, it is now possible to set a default e-mail for both situations.
    • A new contribution submission user interface that helps authors upload their files. Entering keywords and adding other contributors to the contribution have also been simplified.
    • Improved user statistics in compliance with legal GDPR rules.
    • A thorough revision of DOI management and a dedicated DOI management page, making DOI registration now a fully automated process.
    • Better support for HTML in titles.
    • Easier invitation of new reviewers already registered with other journals.
    • Error messages in OJS have been made much clearer, now better specifying what the problem is and where missing information needs to be filled in.
  • May 22, 2024

    HTML format enriches BMGN articles

    OpenJournals, in collaboration with the journal BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, has developed a new HTML format to enrich articles with additional information. Thanks to this HTML format, the BMGN website offers a comprehensive explanation of digital research methods, and better visualisation of the results in the article. With the release of the BMGN issue Volume 139-1, an article in this new HTML format appears on BMGN.nl for the first time.

    For example, it is possible to link additional information to certain words in the text and highlight those words with a colour. When you click on that, the extra information appears in a box in the margin. That text block can then also be enlarged to make reading easier. It is also possible to apply and add all Plotly’s graphs to articles. Plotly is an open-source module used to create data visualisations.

    In the coming period, the Openjournals team will further develop the format and method. After that, other journals could also make use of this feature.

    See the enhanced article in the latest BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review here.

  • March 6, 2024

    Sustainability Letters new at OJ

    Sustainability Letters is a pioneering open-access, short letters-type journal dedicated exclusively to advancing the discourse on sustainability within the management sciences.

    The journal provides a dynamic platform for concise and impactful papers, encouraging scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share innovative ideas, methodologies, and findings that promote sustainable practices in various organizational contexts.

    The journal fully embraces the philosophy of open science and publishes all articles open access free of charge. It features collections of short papers that are processed with an expedited review cycle and that are published on a rolling basis. Sustainability Letters is edited by Dr. Alexander Henkel, Dr. Wim Lambrechts and Dr. Frank Hubers, all affiliated with the Open University.

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  • New journal

    The Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) is a new open access journal that provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of Information Retrieval. IRRJ has a commitment to rigorous yet rapid reviewing. All published papers will be freely available online. Final versions are published electronically immediately upon receipt. Paper volumes are published and sold by Radboud University Press. Papers will be assigned a DOI and the journal will be assigned an ISSN once the first issue is published (planned end of 2024). IRRJ does not charge article processing costs and hopes to attract researchers from low-income countries that currently have a hard time engaging with the field. 

  • New journal

    ZHC publishes the Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) together with Erfgoed Brabant and the Historische Vereniging Brabant (Brabant Historical Society). The NHJ is the platform for scholarly publications on the history of Brabant. We think in particular of North Brabant, but also of areas outside that once belonged to the Duchy of Brabant. The yearbook contains articles on Brabant’s history with a wide diversity of periods and fields such as economic history, social history, church history and military history. Each year there is also a chronicle with reviews of recently published books.

  • New journal

    The NTM aims to disseminate information on developments related to human rights that are relevant to the Dutch legal system and Dutch foreign policy.

    The NTM is published four times a year. The journal contains more scholarly articles, chronicles and opinions on current human rights issues. The NTM also regularly publishes news of the NJCM Association, such as reports of seminars and the annual reports. The NTM is distributed to approximately 1,100 NJCM members and 150 subscribers and is located in all law libraries. Shortly after publication, Wolters Kluwer’s pieces were made digitally accessible through the Navigator.

  • New journal

    The Publications de la Société Historique et Archéologique dans le Limbourg – Publications or PSHAL for short – has been the yearbook of Royal LGOG since 1864. This makes the Publications one of the oldest periodicals in the Netherlands. The Publications contains extensive scientific historical and archaeological articles and the annual report of Royal LGOG.

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