OJS Upgrade

Upgrade to OJS 3 for your Open Journal System & get latest OJS updates

The Public Knowledge Project has developed an open source Journal Management system called Open Journal Systems (OJS) under the open source GPL v2 license for managing and publishing scholarly.

Though it provides tutorials and videos about Journal setup through OJS and upgrading OJS, it is still a little difficult for non-technical people to manage it.

So we at OJSCloud, help Journal owners to setup journals with OJS, Help them to upgrade the current Open Journal System to OJS 3, and migrate to OJS from another platform..

Open Journal System Setup

OJS is open source and anyone can use it. PKP has done their best on creating instructions and videos to setup journals using OJS but still, the installation of OJS requires little technical knowledge.

We setup Journal using an open journal system with simplicity and transparency and make sure that your journals have the fastest load time with our advanced cloud OJS hosting. We strive to add features to your journal publishing process to give the best user experience to visitors and increase your journal readership as much as possible. We offer you the choice of a Free OJS theme in our pool.

We help journal teams prepare a professional OJS website, publishing workflow, article archive, metadata, and technical infrastructure. OJS can provide structured article pages and discovery-related metadata, but neither the platform nor a hosting provider can guarantee inclusion or ranking in Google Scholar or another independent index.

OJS Upgrade

Maintaining Open Journal Systems through supported releases helps journal teams receive relevant bug fixes, security maintenance, compatibility improvements, and platform features. The correct target version depends on PKP support status, server requirements, plugins, themes, custom code, and the journal's workflow.

OJS upgrades—especially major version changes—require synchronized backups, a protected staging test, server and extension compatibility checks, database migration, and post-upgrade validation. GetOJS plans these steps carefully, while recognizing that legacy data and customizations can require project-specific troubleshooting.

Managed OJS hosting can include upgrade planning and maintenance according to the agreed service scope. Journal teams that want to understand the process can read our step-by-step OJS upgrade guide.

Benefits you get with OJS Upgrades

• Modern user experience : OJS 3 comes with modern theme architecture which help designing mobile responsive OJS themes
• Advanced functionality : PKP and the whole community is doing their best to keep adding new demanded functionality needed for the publishing industry time by time and with OJS upgrades you will keep getting these functionality ongoing.
• Security up-to-date : Security is a major concern for the research journals and this has been seriously taken care of by PKP through their regular OJS updates for security to keep OJS secure against the latest attacks.
• Reliability of application : With significant improvement in ingredient technologies used for OJS, OJS also needs to keep up-to-date to be compatible with these technologies. PKP and the community have always been upfront on advancing OJS compatibility with the external environment through frequent OJS updates.
• Extraordinary performance : Experience and performance becomes a key indicator for any OJS website these days and this has been very well taken care of in every OJS update released. Along with fixing bugs, the community also focuses on getting rid of slow moving components out of the application to make OJS websites faster.

OJS Upgrade FAQ