Open Journal Systems (OJS) has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project. For general information about OJS and other open research systems, visit the PKP web site.
You will find detailed guides in docs folder.
Checkout submodules and copy default configuration :
git submodule update --init --recursive
cp config.TEMPLATE.inc.php config.inc.php
Install or update dependencies via Composer:
# if you don't already have Composer installed:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
cd lib/pkp
php ../../composer.phar update
cd ../..
cd plugins/paymethod/paypal
php ../../../composer.phar update
cd ../../..
Install or update dependencies via NPM:
# install [nodejs](https://nodejs.org/en/) if you don't already have it
npm install
npm run build
If your PHP version supports built-in development server :
php -S localhost:8000
See Wiki for more complete development guide.
Specific requirements : PHPunit. Installing with pear for example :
wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
chmod +x phpunit.phar
sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit
Setting up test environment :
mysql -u root -e 'create database ojs'
mysql -u root ojs < tests/functional/testserver.sql
cp config.TRAVIS.inc.php config.inc.php
Running the tests :
./lib/pkp/tools/runAllTests.sh -Cc
See https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/#issues for information on reporting issues.
This software is released under the the GNU General Public License.
See the file COPYING included with this distribution for the terms of this license.
Third parties are welcome to modify and redistribute OJS in entirety or parts according to the terms of this license. PKP also welcomes patches for improvements or bug fixes to the software.