Abstract

This is a story about how an Open Journal Systems-based library publishing service tried (and failed) to implement XML in one of its publications. We ran a small project to look at how journals we support could develop a JATS XML-based publishing workflow using existing open software tools.

Highlights

  • Septentrio Academic Publishing is a library-run service at UiT The Arctic University of Norway that publishes open access journals on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.[1]

  • Publishing articles in XML format has long been a discussion in the Septentrio team because of XML’s benefits and advantages

  • When the University Library decided to publish an issue of the Septentrio-series Ravnetrykk dedicated to Stein Høydalsvik, the Septentrio team thought: how about publishing this issue in the XML format? Stein coordinated the Septentrio service for a number of years and it would be a nice tribute to Stein if Septentrio’s first XML experience was an issue dedicated to him

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Introduction

Septentrio Academic Publishing is a library-run service at UiT The Arctic University of Norway that publishes open access journals on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.[1]. In this short article we give an overview of the work that was done to publish an issue in Ravnetrykk using JATS XML format. Septentrio has two journals where the preferred format of submissions is LaTeX; if an XML workflow is to be developed for all of Septentrio’s journals in the future, we need to consider tools that can work with LaTeX.

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