PKP OJS Workshops make Waves in Indonesia: a Recap

Indonesia, the largest country in the world using OJS based on Beacon Data in 2022, holds 19,997 journals out of 44,000 journals and continues to grow significantly. Among those numbers, more than 5,000 journals still use the older version of OJS. which is no longer supported, lack of security issues, and missing the new features and plugins. PKP is concerned about this issue and encourages the journals to upgrade to the OJS latest version and experience the new plugins in OJS.

Last Summer marked a new milestone for PKP to hold the events series for the editors, journal managers, and the system administrators on OJS Plugins, Editorial Workflow, and OJS Journal Upgrading in collaboration with Crossref, University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) and Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI) and presented by Patricia Mangahis, our client services manager who explained on how to maximize the usage of the plugins in OJS and the effectiveness of the editorial workflow in OJS 3.3 while Jonas Raoni Soares Da Silva, our system developer was more emphasized on the importance on OJS Journal upgrading to the newest OJS version and completed with the live demo of the upgrading process.

PKP has been working closely with Crossref by doing several collaborative projects for a long time. Crossref is one of the open infrastructure organizations that concerns metadata and manages Digital Object Identifier (DOI) where DOI is the most used plugin in OJS, not to mention other plugins that are covered by Crossref. PKP took part in the Crossref Jakarta event which was held in Jakarta on 19-20 August 2024 attended by 140 participants. This event is an opportunity to connect with the Crossref members, most of them are OJS users, to hear about the needs of the community and how to improve the scholarly communication communities in Indonesia.

The second series was hosted by the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) on 22 August 2024 exclusively for 242 participants which consisted of the editors, journal managers, journal programmers, and system administrators of the journals managed by UGM. This university was chosen since it is one of the oldest, biggest, and most reputable universities in Indonesia which can be a role model for other universities in Indonesia and hope that they will share their experience best practices, and success stories on the journal upgrading process.

We closed our series in the third city in Makassar, the gate to the eastern parts of Indonesia on 24 August 2024 to 111 participants from many universities, mostly from Makassar, but also from other parts of Sulawesi, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara and Sorong, Papua, the easternmost island in Indonesia. In this event, Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) as the home institution of PKP agree to have the regional partner memorandum of understanding to improve the scholarly and public quality, reach, and diversity of academic research through the research, development, implementation, and support of innovative open source software to support scholarly publishing and communication in Indonesia.

PKP will continue its commitment and dedication to ensure that all of the universities in Indonesia will transform their OJS and make maximum use of the future versions of OJS that will be continuously developed.

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