Early in the summer of 2023, Boston College Libraries upgraded our version of Open Journal Systems from 3.1.2 to version 3.3. Along with a much more intuitive dashboard and design options, the upgrade given faculty run journals to integrate with iThenticate’s “Turn-it-in” – an automated plagiarism checker. Our portfolio includes e-journals from a wide breadth of disciplines at Boston College and, indeed, the list continues to grow and grow.
In addition to providing an automated plagiarism checker, OJS:
- provides automated indexation – to places like the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Google Scholar,
- helps young researchers automatically connect their ORCID to their scholarly work,
- automatically creates citations that are correctly formatted in a variety of different styles depending on the discipline,
- preserves your journal in a private LOCKSS archive network,
- and creates unique identifiers for every article – making them much more easy to find as scholars cite and visit your published issues.
Our journal collections can be found at ejournals.bc.edu – and we also have put together a series of data visualizations that demonstrate the international audience that many of our journals have reached with consistent outreach and accessibility best practices.
The snapshot above shows one of our Data Visualizations showing the readership of all of our OJS journals over the course of 2023. For the interactive graphic, be sure to visit our tableau visualizations!