Source: http://www.ctp.bbk.ac.uk/2017/08/04/birkbeck-centre-for-technology-and-publishing-releases-scholarly-communications-platform-janeway/
Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing releases scholarly communications platform, “Janeway”
Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing is
pleased to announce the open-source release of its software for academic
publishing. “Janeway” is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that is free to download, use, and modify.
pleased to announce the open-source release of its software for academic
publishing. “Janeway” is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that is free to download, use, and modify.
Written in Django/Python from the ground up and still
under active development, the software includes a submission system, a
peer-review management workflow, Crossref DOI integration, OAI feeds,
Open Journal Systems import mechanisms, an extensible plugin architecture,
and much more. Janeway is licensed under the AGPL meaning that anyone
is free to use and modify the software, so long as they make their
changes similarly open (even if they modify the code in private and
publicly host that instance). The software is lightweight and can run on
shared hosting platforms that support WSGI, such as Reclaim Hosting.
under active development, the software includes a submission system, a
peer-review management workflow, Crossref DOI integration, OAI feeds,
Open Journal Systems import mechanisms, an extensible plugin architecture,
and much more. Janeway is licensed under the AGPL meaning that anyone
is free to use and modify the software, so long as they make their
changes similarly open (even if they modify the code in private and
publicly host that instance). The software is lightweight and can run on
shared hosting platforms that support WSGI, such as Reclaim Hosting.
A press site running Janeway
The Director of the CTP and Project Lead on Janeway, Professor Martin Paul Eve,
said: “we are delighted to be able to contribute to the growing
ecosystem of open-source platforms for open-access publication and to
assist presses in lowering their overheads of running a platform.
Janeway has been designed, from the ground up, to be easy to understand
with a clean codebase in a modern web framework. In turn, this makes it
easy to hire technical staff at rates that won’t break the bank to
maintain scholarly communication infrastructures.”
said: “we are delighted to be able to contribute to the growing
ecosystem of open-source platforms for open-access publication and to
assist presses in lowering their overheads of running a platform.
Janeway has been designed, from the ground up, to be easy to understand
with a clean codebase in a modern web framework. In turn, this makes it
easy to hire technical staff at rates that won’t break the bank to
maintain scholarly communication infrastructures.”
Andy Byers, who has recently joined Birkbeck,
University of London as Senior Publishing Technologies Developer in
order to take on the Lead Developer role on Janeway, added: “my
experience with some of the existing platforms was one of frustration –
complex architectures that were difficult to maintain unless you knew
them inside out. The goal with Janeway was to have a fast, modern web
framework do most of the lifting so that we can concentrate on the
features that open-access publishers need.”
University of London as Senior Publishing Technologies Developer in
order to take on the Lead Developer role on Janeway, added: “my
experience with some of the existing platforms was one of frustration –
complex architectures that were difficult to maintain unless you knew
them inside out. The goal with Janeway was to have a fast, modern web
framework do most of the lifting so that we can concentrate on the
features that open-access publishers need.”
An article rendered from JATS XML in Janeway
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