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Thank you all for your kind and thoughtful replies to my query. On the rare occasions when I venture beyond lurking to pose the occasional query, I am often overwhelmed by the generosity of those who take the time to reply. As many seemed interested in hearing a synthesis of responses to my vague and general question about people’s real world experience with OJS and other e-publishing platforms, I have included the below. Note that nearly all were happy with OJS with one exception who had an earlier version that seemed to have some navigational issues and unresolved bugs. Those who wrote in to comment on e-publishing deployment include: Prince Edward Island - integrating OJS and Fedora: http://www.fedora-commons.org/portfolio/more.php?pid=UPEI Rutgers University (still integrating OJS + Fedora?) University of Kansas: https://journals.ku.edu/index.php Emory University – tried out OJS and OCS, looking at DPubs EBLIP: http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP 350+ Brazilian Journals (using DSpace as IR – not sure as to degree of integration if any): http://oasisbr.ibict.br/sobre.php Indian Journal of Medical Informatics: http://ijmi.org International Journal of Digital Curation: http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/issue/current Some general resources I was referred to include: University of Kansas talk on deploying OJS “Mapping Our Course: Toward a Collaborative Environment for Digital” at Educause Midwest Regional 2008: http://www.educause.edu/upload/presentations/MWRC08/SESS38/MWRC08_KUscholarservices.pdf From Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp2007/index.php/pkp/1/schedConf/presentations Article about PKPSP Conference at: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan08 A sampling of OJS journals are at: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-journals Lest we forget, we also have DPubs, developed by Cornell, as an option: http://dpubs.org/ Pocast on DPubs from Educause 2005: http://connect.educause.edu/blog/podcaster/e2005podcastthedpubsdevel/2070 DPubs Journals: http://dpubs.org/projects.html Some general concerns about e-publishing system in general: 1) how flexible and extensible is the submissions/editorial process? 2) how sustainable is it when hosting, say, 20+ ejournals, conferences, etc.? 3) how much flexibility is there in the organization and presentation of published materials? __________________________ Sunny Yoon Digital Resources Coordinator The City University of New York Office of Library Services 555 West 57th Street, Suite 1140 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.541.1013 Fax: 212.541.0357