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To allow the publication of a new version of a published article, the project OJS-de.net contributes code to the OJS core. Changes in published articles can be published in a new version.

Documentation

• Description of the GUI: Article versioning in OJS
• Technical description: https://github.com/ojsde/versioning/wiki/Technical-documentation

Features

• new unpublished article version can be created at the production stage via button
• new versions will contain a copy of all relevant data of the previsous version, except the publication date
• new versions can be edited and published when finished
• changes at the recently published version are allowed - old versions are read only
• each article version has an own article page
• all article versions are linked at the article page as version history
• article pages of old article versions contain an hind and a link to the most recent article version
• issues table of content displays only the current version
• extension of the url structure to display old versions at the frontend
• DOIs

Open tasks

• update plugins and interfaces that use metadata

Possible future features:

• display production ready files for each version
• display diffs (compare changes on text level)
• mark major and minor versions (versions could be handled differently e.g. display at home page)