Structured publishing, right inside your OJS.
Give authors and editors a real manuscript editor inside Open Journal Systems, and get clean, media-neutral JATS out the other side — no Word cleanup and no typesetter round-trips.
The same editor behind OJS, OS-APS and SciFlow
This is the open-source SciFlow editor — the shared foundation under Open Journal Systems, the Open Source Academic Publishing Suite and the SciFlow platform. Adopt it in OJS and your content stays natively compatible with all three: run OJS as you do today, or grow into OS-APS and a managed platform when you're ready.
OJS
Where your journal already lives. The editor slots into the submission workflow your editorial team uses.
OS-APS
The publicly funded Open Source Academic Publishing Suite for presses — the same editor, with media-neutral exports to PDF, HTML, EPUB and JATS.
SciFlow
The managed publishing platform for live collaboration, manuscript import and hosted exports — without changing the underlying content model.
All three build on one open-source editor core — standards-based and openly licensed, for the long term.
Start on any recent OJS — integrate deeper when you can
You don't need the newest OJS release to begin. The open OJS XML format works across current releases today; the SciFlow editor integrates directly into OJS 3.6 and up, and the Reader plugin reaches back to 3.4.
Exchange via OJS XML
OS-APS and SciFlow both support the native OJS XML format today. Move articles in and out of OJS through the format your installation already speaks — no plugin and no upgrade required.
Edit inside OJS
The SciFlow manuscript editor integrates directly into OJS 3.6 and up — authors and editors write structured, media-neutral content inside the journal, with no separate tool and no Word round-trip.
Push and typeset with the plugin
A SciFlow Publish plugin for OJS 3.6 and newer is in development: typeset finished articles and push them straight into OJS, syncing article metadata both ways — no manual re-keying between your production workflow and the journal.
Read in OJS with the Reader plugin
A Reader plugin brings the accessible SciFlow Reader into OJS — so published articles are read in the browser on the very same structured data, with no re-export.
It's all the same structured data — so as the plugins land, finished articles move into OJS and into the Reader without ever leaving your journal.
Structured content, from first draft to archive
Because the article is structured while it's being written, the work you used to do at the end isn't needed.
Structure from the first draft
Authors write with real headings, citations, figures and equations. The article is machine-readable from day one — not reconstructed from a formatted file at the end.
Media-neutral by default
One clean source generates JATS XML and feeds PDF, HTML and EPUB downstream. Publish to the web, to print and to archives from the same content.
No Word cleanup, no round-trips
Editing happens on the structured article itself, inside OJS. Skip the export-to-Word-and-back cycle that loses formatting and quietly introduces errors.
Accessible reader output
Semantic HTML and a built-in reader mean your articles meet accessibility expectations — not just look right on the printed page.
Runs where your journal lives
No new platform to migrate to and no separate login. The editor slots into the OJS submission workflow your team uses every day.
Open source, here to stay
Because the editor is open source, OJS can keep using it indefinitely — no vendor can lock it away. Content stays in open standards like JATS, good for long-term preservation.