Stop Letting an Outdated OJS Risk Your Journal’s Reputation

Expert OJS Upgrade Services by OpenJournalTheme.com

Is your Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform lagging behind? In the fast-evolving world of scholarly publishing, staying current is no longer optional, it is a critical requirement for security, discoverability, and operational efficiency.

At OpenJournalTheme.com, we provide expert OJS upgrade services designed to ensure your journal runs on the most secure, feature-rich, and search engine-friendly version available. Don’t let technical debt hold back your research; invest in a professional OJS migration for guaranteed peace of mind and peak performance.

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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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Our OJS upgrade steps workflow:

Estimated Timeline: 2–3 Business Days per Journal

1. Core System Migration

Executing the core codebase and database upgrade to the latest OJS version, performed by our technical team to ensure fundamental system stability and security.

2. Frontend Integrity Audit

Conducting a comprehensive review of the user-facing interface, including Article Galleys, Issue structures, User Registration, and Login mechanisms.

3. Backend Operational Testing

Performing rigorous validation of the editorial workflow, covering the Submission process, Peer Review stages, Publishing mechanisms.

4. Server Environment Synchronization

Deploying the upgraded system to the client's production server, ensuring environment configurations (e.g., PHP and Database settings) are perfectly aligned and optimized.

5. Client-Side Quality Assurance

Conducting a comprehensive review of the user-facing interface, including Article Galleys, Issue structures, User Registration, and Login mechanisms.

6. Technical Insight Reporting

Generating and delivering a detailed technical report outlining the migration process, system enhancements, and applied optimizations for full transparency.

7. Final Handover & Closure

Deploying the upgraded system to the client's production server, ensuring environment configurations (e.g., PHP and Database settings) are perfectly aligned and optimized.

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)

Find out why we're the ideal for your OJS Upgrade plan

Openjournaltheme provide perfect OJS Upgrade. Whether you are performing a major OJS 2 to OJS 3 migration or updating your current OJS 3 installation to the latest stable release, our team handles the technical heavy lifting with meticulous precision.

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.

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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.

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