Achievements
AOSIS OpenJournals has proudly brought the following achievements and innovations to the South African scholarly publishing industry:
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2005: Installs the first full manuscript management website of Open Journal Systems (OJS) in South Africa for a scholarly journal, South African Family Practice. |
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The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) developed Open Journal Systems to expand and improve access to research.
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2006: Commissions the development of an advertisement plugin for Open Journal Systems which became a plugin to the standard OJS version. |
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2007: Transforms the first South African journal Koedoe from a subscription model to an open access journal. |
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2008: Introduces the rolling publication practice (articles are published as soon as they are ready) to our scholarly journals. |
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2009: Becomes a member of CrossRef and is the first publisher in South Africa to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to all newly published articles. |
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| 2010: Becomes the first South African member of the Directory of Open Access Journals. |
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| 2010: Becomes the first publisher in South Africa to publish all articles in HTML and XML formats. |
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| 2010: Introduces Google Translate on all scholarly journal websites, allowing translation of the HTML formats of articles into more than 50 languages. |
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2010: Becomes the first South African member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). |
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2011: Becomes the first publisher in South Africa to introduce articles in the ePUB format. |
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2011: Introduces Cited-by linking for all newly published articles. |
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2012: Introduces CrossCheck for selected journal titles for all new submissions. Crosscheck is a plagiarism detector. |
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2013: Introduces QRCodes to all new articles published in 2013. This allows convenient online access with cellphones/tablets when reading the articles offline. |
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