OJS Upgrade services
Keep Your Journal Platform Secure, Fast, and Fully Functional
Is your Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform showing its age? In the dynamic world of scholarly publishing, staying current is not just an option—it’s a necessity for security, discoverability, and efficiency. At openjournaltheme.com, we specialize in expert OJS upgrade services, ensuring your journal operates on the most secure, feature-rich, and search engine friendly version available. Don’t let an outdated OJS hold back your valuable research; invest in a professional OJS migration for peace of mind and enhanced performance.
Seamless OJS Upgrades: Keeping Your Journal Secure & Up-to-Date
Running an online academic journal with Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a smart choice, but like any powerful platform, it thrives on regular maintenance. At openjournaltheme.com, we understand that keeping your OJS installation updated is crucial for smooth operation, robust security, and accessing the latest features.
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) consistently releases new OJS versions, bringing vital security patches and bug fixes that protect your invaluable journal data, including DOI records, articles, galleys, and user information. Beyond security, these updates introduce new functionalities that optimize your journal’s processes and enhance its overall usability.
Unfortunately, while these new versions are released regularly, the OJS upgrade process itself can be complex. Many users encounter significant technical challenges when attempting to update their OJS, requiring specialized knowledge and experience to avoid data loss or system errors.
That’s where openjournaltheme.com comes in. We offer professional OJS upgrade services, whether you need to migrate from OJS 2 to OJS 3, or update your existing OJS 3 installation to the very latest version. Our experienced team handles every upgrade with meticulous care, ensuring a seamless transition. We’re proud to have successfully upgraded numerous client OJS installations with a 100% success rate and no reported problems. Your satisfaction is our guarantee.
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The upgrade steps workflow:
Why Using our service for update OJS ?
- The record for the articles DOI are retained
- URL of the article unchanged from the previous OJS version which will keep your article still get indexed by indexing database.
- Many publisher have trusted our service on OJS upgrading. We have successful upgrade many of our client Journal site with many issue that they are facing. The upgrade should be done by experienced and professional team to make sure that you won’t get any future technical issue caused by failed upgrade.
- The successful rate of the upgrade process is 100% based on the hundred of OJS that we have upgrade
- We doing deep scrutiny on each process of the Open Journal System including the submission, reviewing, publishing and others OJS essential process to make sure that you will get the result with no future problem.
- We provide guarantee and responsible with any problems that caused of our work on our upgrade services so it will make the peace of mind for our customers.
- We transparent of our process, the client can evaluate the scope that we have done on our organized report
- We done the upgrade on our staging server specialized for each of our customer so the data and privacy are protected.
- Faster since our experienced team know exactly what process should be taken to make the upgrading success
- No journal downtime
- Your journal still can be accessed because we will do the upgrade on our upgrade server (login and register will be disabled for your journal to make sure the database will be the same on upgrading process)
Why You need to regularly upgrade your OJS ?
Older OJS versions are often targets for cyber threats, putting your sensitive data including DOI records, articles, galleys, and user information at risk. A timely OJS upgrade patches these crucial security gaps.
As server technologies (PHP, MySQL) evolve, older OJS versions can face compatibility issues, leading to errors, downtime, and slow performance. A professional OJS upgrade ensures your platform runs harmoniously with current server environments.
Each OJS update introduces new functionalities, from streamlined editorial workflows and advanced plugin support to improved statistics and reporting tools, empowering your journal management.
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Elevate Your Journal: Why a Professional OJS Upgrade is Essential
Keeping your OJS journal updated isn’t just about maintenance; it’s vital for security, visibility, and efficiency. An outdated OJS risks data breaches, hurts your search engine ranking, and offers a less-than-ideal user experience. While OJS updates provide critical security patches and new features, the OJS upgrade process is technically complex and often leads to problems if done without expertise.
At openjournaltheme.com, we offer professional OJS upgrade services. Whether you need to move from OJS 2 to OJS 3, or update your OJS 3 to the latest version, our experienced team handles it all with care. We ensure seamless transitions, comprehensive data protection, and 100% success in delivering a secure, fully functional, and modern OJS platform. Let us handle the technicalities so you can focus on publishing impactful research.
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OJS Upgrade Packages
We offer specialized OJS upgrade solutions tailored to your current platform, ensuring a seamless, secure, and feature-rich transition to the most advanced and stable Open Journal Systems versions available.
OJS 2 to OJS Latest version
This crucial OJS upgrade is not merely an update, it’s a vital OJS migration to a modern, secure, and highly discoverable publishing environment. Our expert service meticulously transitions your entire journal from its OJS 2.x foundation to the latest stable OJS 3.x version, primarily focusing on the OJS 3.3 Long-Term Support (LTS) release for maximum stability.
OJS 3 to Latest OJS Version Update Service
Regular OJS updates within the 3.x series are vital for maintaining peak performance, adopting the newest features, and ensuring ongoing security patch coverage. Our service provides a precise and efficient OJS update from your current OJS 3.x version to the latest stable OJS version available, which typically means an update to OJS 3.4 LTS.
Understanding Your OJS Upgrade: Process, Scope, and Guarantees
At openjournaltheme.com, we adhere to a meticulous and secure process for every OJS upgrade to ensure your journal transitions smoothly to its new version. We utilize the official OJS scripts from the PKP alongside our proprietary tools and specialized expertise to address common and complex challenges that arise during the upgrade.
Our Comprehensive Upgrade Process
Secure Offline Processing: Your OJS upgrade is primarily processed on our secure, isolated servers. This protects your live journal from any disruption during the complex migration.
Advanced Error Resolution: Our team proactively identifies and resolves various technical issues encountered during the upgrade. This includes, but is not limited to, correcting data anomalies, resolving locale errors, adjusting character set (charset) encodings to prevent “strange characters”, and performing other crucial data integrity fixes.
Client Review & Approval: The upgraded OJS environment is simulated on our server, allowing our team to thoroughly test its functionality. We then provide you with access to review the result and confirm its integrity before any changes are applied to your live online version.
Controlled Migration to Live Environment: Only after your full approval will the verified, upgraded OJS be migrated to your current online server.
Important Note for Upgrade Activity: To ensure the integrity and consistency of your database during our upgrade process, we will request the journal manager to temporarily halt all OJS activities (such as new submissions, reviews, and publishing decisions). A professional maintenance page will be displayed on your journal’s URL to inform your visitors and authors.
Data Inclusion Scope: What's Covered in Your Upgrade
Our OJS upgrade packages are designed to migrate your essential journal data comprehensively. We ensure the following key information and functionalities are successfully carried over to your new OJS version:
Article Metadata: All crucial article information including cover images, DOI records, original URLs, contributor details, issue assignments, publishing dates, and all other associated metadata.
Article Files: Original article PDF files and other associated galleys.
Current Submission Workflow: The continuity of your active submission pipelines, including stages and settings.
User Data: Your complete list of users, including their assigned roles and authentication details.
Author/Contributor Information: All records for authors and contributors.
Issues Data: Comprehensive data for all published journal issues.
Announcements: All active and historical announcements.
Static Pages: All custom static pages (note: for OJS 2.x to OJS 3.x upgrades, this excludes pages that were part of OJS 2’s specific structure, which may require re-creation in OJS 3’s static page manager).
Editorial Pages: Specific editorial team pages will be carefully reviewed and manually converted by our team to fit the new OJS 3.x structure.
Usage Statistics: View and download counts will be migrated, provided the OJS 2.x installation has active and working usage data.
Email Templates: Your customized email templates will be transferred.
Submissions: All historical and in-progress submission data.
License Statements: Your journal’s license statements will be preserved.
Compatible Plugin Settings: For OJS 3.x to latest OJS 3.x upgrades, settings for plugins compatible with the new version will be maintained.
Please note: By engaging our OJS upgrade service, you acknowledge and agree to the scope of data inclusion as outlined above.
Our OJS Services :
Theme Customization
- OJS 3 ready theme
- Custom development for OJS theme
- Add custom specific feature to OJS site.
- Create cover and others image asset to your journal with professional design
- Fix any issues regarding on OJS theme
Installation, Fix and Setup
- Setup any new OJS with security hardened and performance tuning
- Fix any issues of your OJS
- Setup any configuration for OJS features
- Upgrade OJS 2 to 3 or to the latest without need to repost any content
OJS Managed Host
- Free OJS Security update
- Hardened Security
- External automatic cloud daily backup
- Priority support anytime.
- Free theme update Forever
- Built in Statistic features
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