 | See Project Documentation (in Dutch) for the Dutch version of this documentation. |
Introduction
Now that journals are digital, it should be easy to publish not just articles, but also their accompanying datasets, resulting in so-called Enhanced Publications. In practice however, there are still hurdles to overcome. The project EJME, optimistically called Enhanced Journals...Made Easy!, aims to take at least some of those away by creating a set of plug-ins for the popular software package Open Journal Systems (OJS).
To ensure a practical result, editors from two journals participated. Journal of Archeology in the Low Countries (JALC), published by Amsterdam University Press (AUP), and International Journal of the Commons (IJC) published by Utrecht University Library/Igitur Publishing.
With the EJME plugins installed, an OJS journal can start working on publications enhanced with data sets. Three different scenario's are supported. The journal can host the data files on their own OJS installation (default functionality of OJS), link to files deposited into an external data repository, or let OJS deposit files into a repository on publication (after peer review). The journal can pick and match from these scenarios, according to best serve their target audience.
The EJME plugin also generate machine-readable descriptions for all articles enhanced with data, regardless of the scenario chosen. These files (OAI-ORE resourcemaps) can then be aggregated by other services, for example NARCIS .
How to use this documentation
- Scenarios for connecting OJS with a data repository: describes the three scenarios. Read this first.
- Installation and configuration of OJS: how to install the EJME plugins on an OJS installation, and configure them, according to the scenario the journal decides to support.
- Configuration of the data repository: documentation for data repositories that want to enable auto-submitting from OJS-EJME journals with the SWORD protocol
- Project Presentations & publicity: links to various presentations given in 2011 on EJME
- Wishlist: lists functionality that is not yet supported, but could be added in a future version.
- For Dutch journals, see Project Documentation (in Dutch) for the Dutch version of this documentation
Contact information
Driek Heesakkers, project manager, h.j.heesakkers@uva.nl.
Project funding and partners
This project was made possible by the support of SURF, the higher education and research partnership organisation for Information and Communications Technology (ICT). For more information about SURF, please visit http://www.surf.nl.
Project partners, in alphabetical order:
Amsterdam University Press (AUP)
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Utrecht University Library / Igitur Publishing,
International Journal of the Commons
Journal of Archeology in the Low Countries (JALC)
University Library, University of Amsterdam
See also the official project page at SURFfoundation.
