Tools

Publishing

Open Conference Systems

Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that can create a complete Web presence for scholarly conferences. It is a highly flexible management and publishing system that can be downloaded for free and installed on a local Web server. It has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with managing a conference, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of conference publishing through a number of innovation, from making policies more transparent to improving indexing. Features: - create a conference Web site - Manage conferences that occur more than once (e.g., yearly) - compose and send a call for papers - electronically accept paper and abstract submissions - allow paper submitters to edit their work - Conduct peer reviews - post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format - Schedule a Conference - post the original data sets - register participants, including accepting payments - integrate post-conference online discussions - utilize an e-mail template system - support multiple languages with localization files - Take advantage of more customizable, scalable and secure code System Requirements: A server environment meeting the following requirements is recommended: - PHP >= 4.2.x (including PHP 5.x); Microsoft IIS requires PHP 5.x - MySQL >= 3.23.23 (including MySQL 4.x) or PostgreSQL >= 7.1 (including - PostgreSQL 8.x) - Apache >= 1.3.2x or >= 2.0.4x or Microsoft IIS 6 Operating system: Any OS that supports the above software, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows

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Collaboration

Open Harvester Systems

The Open Harvester Systems is a free metadata indexing system that allowers users to create a searchable index of the metadata from Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant archives, such as sites using Open Journal Systems (OJS) or Open Conference Systems (OCS). It can harvest OAI metadata in a variety of schemas (including unqualified DC, the PKP (Open Journal Systems/Open Conference Systems) Dublin Core extension, MODS, and MARCXML).

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Publishing

Open Journal Systems

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system. Public Knowledge Project (the sponsor of OJS) is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing

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Collaboration

DEVONthink

DEVONthink is a database that helps users organize, manage and collaborate on digital files, including Office files, links, e-mails, research data and PDFs.

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Scrivener

Scrivener is software for writing that includes virtual index cards, outlining, version control, import/export options, and scriptwriting features, and provides a management system for notes and documents plus support for document metadata. It allows the creation of documents from sub documents, ebook (epub and Kindle/mobi) and TeX and LaTeX export as well as ODF, PDF and Microsoft Word exports. A Linux version is in beta, and an iOS version is reportedly under development

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OmniFocus

OmniFocus is task management software that can sync between Macs and iOS devices.

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Collaboration

Evernote

Evernote is note-taking software in the cloud, with options for private and shared notebooks. Users can take text notes, and upload files to attach them to notes. Evernote has built-in OCR for images with printed or handwritten text. A premium account allows access to notebooks offline, as well as more storage and embedded PDF search.

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ScholarPress Workshop

ScholarPress Workshop is a WordPress plugin for managing workshops.

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BuddyPress Courseware

BuddyPress Courseware is no longer supported according to their website: http://buddypress.coursewa.re/.

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Organizing

Navicat for MySQL

Navicat for MySQL is an interface for working with MySQL databases, including importing data from CSV or Excel, exporting, reporting, querying, and for developing scripts etc, and general database exploration Navicat for MySQL can also be used with MariaDB databases

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