post2.jpgOJS is a publishing and journal management system that has been developed through the initiative of the Public Knowledge Project. This is a federally funded project with the goal of expanding and improving access to research. OJS provides assistance to every stage of the publishing process starting from online submissions of publications. The management system’s finely grained indexing of research and context seeks to improve the quality of both public and scholarly research.

Being open source software, it is freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of providing a viable option for open access publishing to more journals. Some of the system’s features are:
1. It can installed and controlled locally
2. Configuration is controlled by editors
3. Online submission of content
4. Open access option for subscription
5. Global system indexing
6. Contents reading tools
7. Reader’s interaction
8. Help support

Source: pkp.sfu.ca