Full Journal Transfer plugin for OJS 2.4.6+
About
This is an import/export plugin for OJS 2.4.6 or above (the last tested was 2.4.8-4) for transfering journals among OJS portals. The content of a journal is transfered in the process, including articles in review, submitted articles, email and event log.
System Requirements
This plugin requires OJS 2.4.6 or above. OJS 3.x is not supported.
Although the plugin supports several versions, both the source and destination OJS must be the same to use it.
Example: Origin and destination 2.4.8-1 version, supported Origin and destination 2.4.7 version, supported Origin 2.4.8-4 version and destination 2.4.7 version, not supported
Installation
- Copy the plugin contents in the plugins/importexport folder
Usage
The recommended way to use this plugin is through the command line, using the importExport.php script available in the tools folder of the OJS install directory.
For exporting:
> php tools/importExport.php FullJournalImportExportPlugin export <filename>.tar.gz <journalPath>
For importing:
> php tools/importExport.php FullJournalImportExportPlugin import <filename>.tar.gz
> php tools/rebuildSearchIndex.php
License
This software is released under the GNU General Public License.
See the file docs/COPYING included with this distribution for the terms of this license.
Credits
This plugin was idealized and sponsored by Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT).
Developed by Lepidus Tecnologia.
Contact/Support
http://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/c/questions (english)
http://forum.ibict.br/c/ojs-seer (portuguese)