OJS 3.5 Released — Full Support on OJSPlus Platform

The Public Knowledge Project released Open Journal Systems 3.5 with significant improvements to the reader experience, editorial workflow, and developer APIs.

Key highlights in OJS 3.5:

• Highlights — a new native carousel for featuring selected articles on the journal homepage
• Improved usage statistics — COUNTER 5 compliant, with institution-level download tracking
• Enhanced REST API — expanded endpoints for submissions, publications, and issues
• Rewritten submission wizard — a cleaner, faster five-step upload process for authors
• Reviewer suggestions — authors can now suggest preferred reviewers during submission
• MariaDB 11 support — official support for the latest MariaDB LTS release

All journals hosted on OJSPlus have been upgraded to OJS 3.5.0.4. If you experience any issues after the upgrade, please contact our support team at [email protected].