Posted by lisagrimm on July 13, 2010 at 2:13pm
Hi all --
I'm curious to know if there are scientific or scholarly journal publishers using OpenPublish for their journal sites. We're comparing OpenPublish to a more basic Drupal w/E-Journal module solution for the next iteration of our journal sites, and I'd love to get feedback on how it's working for publishers who have already made the switch.
Were you able to integrate well with PubMed/CrossRef/etc.? Anything you wish you'd done differently in your setup?
Thanks!
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I don't personally know of a
I don't personally know of a project like that, so I will leave for others to answer that. Regarding the technical part of the question:
I believe the building blocks of any magazine/journal are very similar whether it is a scientific or more popular news-oriented journal. Many of these blocks are implemented in OpenPublish, but not in vanilla Drupal. OpenPublish is not (and was never intended) to be an out-of-the-box solution that covers every possible use-case. I don't think such system is feasible. Instead, it's a platform to bootstrap the creation of your news publishing site. In most cases it gives you several hundreds of hours worth of head-start. That helps :)
For Drupal PubMed module, i found this: http://drupal.org/project/pubmed_integration. Since it's a Drupal module it can easily be added to OpenPublish, if it provides the functionality you are looking for.
I am not sure, but I think this module: http://drupal.org/project/biblio has some integration with CrossRef. Either way, seems something that you may want to use if you are building a scientific journal?
Please let us know if you end-up using OpenPublish and best of luck with your project!
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Thanks for your speedy reply
Thanks for your speedy reply - we'd definitely have to do a lot of customization with vanilla Drupal, and the included modules in OpenPublish would certainly be useful. Thanks also for the PubMed module link - that's very helpful indeed.
We'll let you know how we get on!
Follow up?
@Lisa - which solution did you end up using?
I am looking at a project now that has been considering the OJS software (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs) for managing a journal. I have also been looking at the http://drupal.org/project/ejournal module and the OpenPublish distro as well.
I think one of the main differences for academic journals is the peer review process which is not part of the normal magazine style publishing system. There is also a good overview of the differences here http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/sources/journals/vs_magazines...
Does anyone else have any experience with these topics/solutions?
--Ryan
Ryan Cross
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Progressing this on a bit
Progressing this on a bit would the workflow feature of Open Publish accomplish the peer review element?
Given its a year on has there been any journals going down the open publish route?