Mark Cyzyk and Sayeed Choudhury, A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems, report commissioned by the Open Society Institute, April 28, 2008. View the wiki or PDF version. (Thanks to Public Knowledge Project.)
... [W]e chose four systems for further, detailed investigation. These four systems were:
DPubS (Digital Publishing System) (Cornell and Penn State)
GNU EPrints (University of Southampton)
Hyperjournal (Net7 and University of Pisa)
Open Journal System (University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University)
Three other systems, while not fully evaluated here (for reasons discussed below), merit special mention:
The evaluation of these first four systems—Dpubs, EPrints, Hyperjounral and OJS—consisted of local installation, reading supporting documentation, and consideration of four broad areas:
Institutional affiliation and other indicators of the viability of the open-source project
Technical requirements, maintenance, scalability, and documented APIs
Submission, peer review management, and administrative functions
Access, formats, and electronic commerce functions ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 4/29/2008 03:15:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
