OJS at CUNY

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  Posted by Mark Eaton on March 9, 2025 at 1:25 am

  Can anyone shed some light on why CUNY moved away from OJS in 2017? See: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/online-journal-system-ojs-service-discontinued

  I have been trying to piece this together by reading old commons discussions and blog posts, but it is still not very clear to me what happened. Any insights are welcome.

• Stephen Klein

  Member

  March 9, 2025 at 9:34 am

  My memory is a bit fuzzy, but if were to accurately recall there was an array of issues. A new release was not even on the horizon and the old version had severe limitations. I was part of JITP back then an in addition to using OJS, we had to use a few spreadsheets to support the submission to publishing process. Also, GC IT lost a sys admin who was primary support for GC’s instance of OJS.

  Thank you.

  Best,
  Stephen

  Stephen Klein
  Economics, History and Political Science Liaison
  Digital Services Librarian<https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/prf.php?account_id=522 >
  Mina Rees Library
  CUNY Graduate Center
  Mark Eaton

  Participant

  March 9, 2025 at 1:51 pm

  Interesting! Thank you Stephen! So the impression I’m getting is that GC was self-hosting and that this became unworkable for a variety of (mostly technical) reasons. That makes sense.

  All the best,

  Mark
  Stephen Klein

  Member

  March 10, 2025 at 9:27 am

  My pleasure Mark. There were about ~8 journals being hosted and I learned that JITP  was the most active user of OJS in my dual roles working on the JITP collective and attempting to perform archive and preserve as a GC librarian, so there was no compelling reason attempting to retain the platform, especially since IT was no longer about to support it,  because of its limitations.