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Open Journal Systems & Transformative Works and Cultures

27.Mar.2009

I’m not the only one to think that academic journals currently aren’t as useful as they could be. Most are still locked behind high subscription fees, big university websites or complex submission procedures. All those factors keep them away from a more broad academic, and non-academic but interested, audience.

So it was a nice surprise to discover the Open Journal Systems project by the Public Knowledge Project. It’s an open platform for creating, managing and publishing a reviewed academic journal. And, from the examples, it is highly configurable.

I discovered OJS through the Transformative Works and Cultures journal (referenced on Scene-PT). Their last number, Games as Transformative Works, features some good articles on the world around video games (players, developers, etc.), like “The everyday lives of video game developers”: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/73/76, so take a look.

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