Abstract
The BMBF project OPTIMETA aims to strengthen the Open Access publishing system by connecting open citations and spatiotemporal metadata from open access journals with openly accessible data sources. For this purpose, we will extend Open Journal Systems (OJS) to give it functionalities for collecting and distributing open data by developing two OJS plugins for capturing citation networks and articles' spatial and temporal properties as machine-readable and accessible metadata. We will ensure the target group-orientated design of the plugins by performing a comprehensive needs analysis for key stakeholders: the editors or operators of OA journals and the researchers, as authors and readers of articles. The developments will be designed and tested in cooperation with several independent journals and OA publishers. Overall, OPTIMETA supports the attraction of independent OA journals as publication venues by substantially improving the discoverability and visibility of OA publications through enrichment and interlinking of article metadata.
Highlights
ObjectivesSurvey of the requirements and expectations of the core target groups, namely (a) independent Open Access (OA) journals and university publishers (with a focus on Germanspeaking countries) and (b) academics from various research fields
An overarching goal of the project is that the plugins will be stable and intuitive, as it is likely that users with a wide variety of backgrounds will need to install, administer and use the plugins and any faulty or complex installation processes may limit the distribution of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) extensions
Tasks/approach: The OJS plugin for extracting, validating and submitting citation information to open citation indexes will be implemented in several steps
Summary
Install and apply the plugins at the partner journals. Tasks/approach: The partner journals will be supported by the project staff with installing a pre-release version (at least one partner journal) and the releases of the OJS plugins from the OJS Plugin Gallery (eventually all partner journals). The results will continue to be used by peer-reviewed OA journals or journal platforms as external partners of OPTIMETA*12 These partner journals will install the current OJS plugins in at least two points in time, test the functionality with their various user groups, support the requirements analysis and report errors during operation. This enables (a) the professional public to use the data developed in this project as a basis for further research and (b) publishers to include it in their own services. The TIB will carry out the installation of the plugins to the journals hosted by the TIB, the hosting of the project website and the provision of facilities for a final workshop
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