Software case studies

OJS

This collection brings together 14 source-verified institutional cases involving OJS: Adopted OJS (consortial hosting) (1), Adopted OJS (national portal) (2), Custom system → OJS (Khulisa) (1), Hosted platform → OJS (1), Independent site → OJS (1), Legacy → OJS (Khulisa) (1), Print → OJS (1), Taylor & Francis → OJS (1), Wiley → OJS (1), WordPress → OJS (1), bepress Digital Commons → OJS (2), bepress Digital Commons → OJS 3.x (1). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.

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Taylor & Francis → OJS

Journal of Critical Public Health / University of Calgary

Canada·Scholarly society / university library host·2023

In 2023, members of the Critical Public Health editorial board resigned from Taylor & Francis over the commodification of their scholarship and eroded editorial…

OJSScholarly society / university library hostCanada
bepress Digital Commons → OJS

Western University (University of Western Ontario) Libraries

Canada·University library·2019

After Elsevier's 2017 acquisition of bepress, Western University Libraries undertook a values-driven migration of 26 independent journals off bepress Digital…

OJSUniversity libraryCanada
Adopted OJS (national portal)

Journal.fi (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)

Finland·National journal portal·2017

Journal.fi is a shared, OJS-based publishing platform for Finnish scholarly journals, run by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies together with the National…

OJSNational journal portalFinland
Print → OJS

Kerbala International Journal of Management and Economics (University of Kerbala)

Iraq·University journal·2024

The Kerbala International Journal of Management and Economics (KIJME), published by the University of Kerbala in Iraq, was founded in 2010 as an Arabic-language…

OJSUniversity journalIraq
Adopted OJS (national portal)

Academy of Science of South Africa (Khulisa Journals)

South Africa·National journal portal·2022

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) established the Khulisa Journals platform on OJS to streamline South African scholarly output, letting journals…

OJSNational journal portalSouth Africa
Legacy → OJS (Khulisa)

African Journal of Information and Communication (Wits)

South Africa·University journal·2022

The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), published by the University of the Witwatersrand, migrated its archives into the ASSAf Khulisa Journals…

OJSUniversity journalSouth Africa
Custom system → OJS (Khulisa)

South African Journal of Animal Science (SASAS)

South Africa·Scholarly society·2025

The South African Journal of Animal Science (SAJAS), published since 1971, initially moved online in the early 2000s on a custom-built manuscript-submission system…

OJSScholarly societySouth Africa
Hosted platform → OJS

Journal of Information Literacy / University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom·Scholarly society / university library host·2017

The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) migrated to the University of Edinburgh's OJS installation in 2017, after a decade hosted at Loughborough University. The…

OJSScholarly society / university library hostUnited Kingdom
Wiley → OJS

Mathematical Logic Quarterly / DVMLG (Cambridge University Library)

United Kingdom·Scholarly society / university library host·2025

Protesting profit-oriented policies, the entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly (MLQ) resigned from Wiley. Backed by the German logic society DVMLG,…

OJSScholarly society / university library hostUnited Kingdom
Independent site → OJS

Medicine Anthropology Theory (University of Edinburgh)

United Kingdom·Independent journal / university library host·2020

Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT), founded in 2014 by scholars at the University of Amsterdam, migrated in 2020 to the University of Edinburgh Library's…

OJSIndependent journal / university library hostUnited Kingdom
WordPress → OJS

OICC Press

United Kingdom·Independent OA publisher·2022

OICC Press, an independent open-access publisher, initially ran its journals on a bespoke WordPress multi-site architecture, but the platform's limitations for…

OJSIndependent OA publisherUnited Kingdom
bepress Digital Commons → OJS 3.x

OLA Quarterly / Oregon State University

United States·University library / scholarly society·2020

The OLA Quarterly, a journal of the Oregon Library Association hosted by Oregon State University, migrated an archival run of 93 issues from bepress Digital Commons…

OJSUniversity library / scholarly societyUnited States
Adopted OJS (consortial hosting)

Texas Digital Library (OJS hosting)

United States·Regional consortium·2020

The Texas Digital Library (TDL) provides managed OJS hosting in the Amazon cloud for its member institutions, handling system administration so university journal…

OJSRegional consortiumUnited States
bepress Digital Commons → OJS

University of Minnesota Libraries

United States·University library·2018

Recognising the community concern after Elsevier's acquisition of bepress, the University of Minnesota Libraries funded the Public Knowledge Project to develop a…

OJSUniversity libraryUnited States

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