JaneWay Demo / Sandbox

[cederom]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• This is a very interesting platform that we may switch to from PKP.
• There is no Demo / Sandbox to play around and see how it works.

Describe the solution you'd like

• A Demo / Sandbox that would allow playing around and see if that platform would suit out need.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• https://github.com/pkp/ojs

Additional context

• I love Python and Django and use it myself, could even add something here, but a Demo / Sanbox is clearly missing to see what this platform is.

Thank you for considering :-) Tomek

[mauromsl]

Hi @cederom,

We do host a demo site here: https://demo.janeway.systems

[cederom]

Thanks @mauromsl :-) It seems a bit messy, could not find resulting PDF (does it use LaTeX for processing?), does not convince that much to be honest :-P

[mauromsl]

Thanks @mauromsl :-) It seems a bit messy, could not find resulting PDF (does it use LaTeX for processing?), does not convince that much to be honest :-P

We do grant acces to this site to anyone who wants to test the platform and it doesn't get cleaned up very frequently. The more curated site we use for demos would be this test journal: https://demo.janeway.systems/playtest/

As for the rendering engine, we use XSLT to render JATS as HTML, but we also have a Plugin that relies on Pandoc to generate HTML out of .docx files (and could probably be expanded for generating HTML out of LaTeX).

https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/pandoc_plugin

[cederom]

We are considering a switch from our old custom engine at https://www.e-health.pl/. We did use PKP OJS for some time. But JaneWay looks more interesting and its written in my favorite Python+Django :-)

At the demo site all downloads seems to be missing..? We would like to see the books that can be generated by JaneWay. Do you think it is possible?

It is important for us ho have all submission / correct / review / accept process on the platform, that seems already here, but also automated generation of the issues, preferably with LaTeX, so we do not do it by hand.

I guess Typesetting Plugin is what we need? To correct and convert all of the articles (i.e. Book of Abstracts) into a PDF?

Thank you for you time and all of the hints @mauromsl :-)

ps/2: I have already asked it here https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/janeway/issues/1683 about the timeline to switch to a current 3.2LTS and if this will be next major release. Timeline + Development + Maintenance is very important decision factor as I will be the one to setup and maintain (maybe even develop) the platform right now and in upcoming years. It would be nice to have a clean Project Timeline in the repo. JaneWay seems to be one of few Open-Source publishing platforms out there that is still alive :-)