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OJS Development Services for Scholarly Journals
Build, improve or modernise your scholarly journal on Open Journal Systems (OJS). Mindsols provides OJS development services for universities, publishers, research organisations and editorial teams that need a reliable journal platform shaped around their publishing workflow.
From installation and upgrades to custom themes, plugins, integrations and migration, we help turn OJS into a practical publishing environment for editors, reviewers, authors and readers.
Build and Improve Your Journal with Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems is open-source software created by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) for managing and publishing scholarly journals. It supports the publishing lifecycle from submission and editorial review through production and online publication.
Mindsols helps journal teams configure OJS around their real editorial needs. Depending on the project, this can include a new journal setup, interface customisation, version upgrades, archive migration, plugin work, metadata and DOI-related integrations, email configuration, performance improvements and ongoing technical support.
The goal is not to overload the platform with unnecessary custom code. We first identify what OJS already supports, then customise only where the journal workflow, branding or integrations genuinely require it.
OJS Services We Offer
End-to-end Open Journal Systems services for launch, migration, upgrades, recovery and integration.
Launch a new OJS journal with the technical foundation and core configuration needed for publishing. We can support installation, journal setup, user roles, editorial workflow settings, website structure, email configuration, theme setup, essential plugins and pre-launch checks. Where required, we can also help prepare a multi-journal installation for an institution or publisher.
Keep an existing OJS installation current with a planned version upgrade. Before upgrading, we review backups, the database, themes, plugins, custom code and hosting requirements. The upgraded environment should be tested on staging first where practical, with editorial workflows, submissions, published content and integrations checked before production release.
For universities, societies or publishers managing multiple journals, we can plan a shared OJS environment with clear site administration, journal-level configuration and consistent technical standards. The rollout can cover journal creation, branding, user roles, plugin strategy, shared hosting requirements and migration sequencing while preserving journal-specific identity.
If an OJS website is broken, partially upgraded, unstable or difficult to maintain, we can review the current installation and define a recovery path. This may include configuration fixes, database or file issues, plugin conflicts, theme problems, failed upgrades, email issues, permissions, workflow checks or rebuilding parts of the environment after a technical audit.
Connect OJS with supported services used in scholarly publishing and journal operations. Depending on the platform and project, this may include DOI registration workflows, ORCID, OAI-PMH, analytics, email services, authentication, indexing-related metadata, payment functionality or other systems that provide suitable integration methods.
OJS Solutions for Scholarly Publishing
Universities & Colleges
Support institution-led journals with structured OJS setup, multi-journal management, editorial roles and technical governance.
Research Institutes
Create journal platforms that support institute publications, editorial workflows, metadata and long-term research dissemination.
Academic Societies
Build or modernise society journals with member-facing publishing workflows, branded journal websites and appropriate integrations.
Independent Journals
Help editorial teams launch or improve standalone journals without building a publishing platform from scratch.
Scholarly Publishers
Support publishers operating one or multiple journals with consistent OJS infrastructure, upgrades, workflows and maintenance.
Medical & Health Journals
Configure OJS for peer-reviewed health and medical publishing with clear editorial roles, metadata and publication workflows.
Science & Engineering
Support technical journals with organised submissions, peer review, issue publishing, metadata and discoverability-focused configuration.
Social Sciences
Build accessible journal workflows for research communities publishing articles, reviews, special issues and multidisciplinary content.
Humanities & Arts
Customise journal presentation, issue archives and editorial workflows for humanities, arts and cultural scholarship.
Multidisciplinary Journals
Plan flexible OJS configurations that can support multiple subject areas, sections, editors and reviewer communities within one journal.
Extend and Customise Your OJS Platform
Use the existing four-card layout, replacing the Power Platform products with OJS capabilities that match commercial search intent and real journal requirements.
OJS Theme Development
Create a responsive journal interface aligned with your publication identity, including layout, typography, colours, navigation and reader-facing page improvements.
OJS Plugin Development
Extend OJS with custom or modified plugins for journal-specific features, workflows, reporting or integrations while minimising unnecessary changes to the core platform.
Metadata & Publishing Integrations
Improve scholarly publishing workflows with supported DOI, ORCID, OAI-PMH, analytics, metadata and other integration requirements based on the journal setup.
OJS Maintenance & Support
Keep the platform healthy with agreed technical support, backups, upgrades, troubleshooting, plugin/theme compatibility checks and ongoing improvements.
Discuss Your OJS Development Requirements
Tell us whether you are launching a new journal, upgrading an existing OJS installation, migrating content, fixing a technical issue or planning custom functionality. Sharing your current OJS version, journal URL, number of journals and required integrations will help us scope the project more accurately.