Open Journal Systems · Srinivas Krishna ·

Journals rarely fail at peer review. They fail at infrastructure.

I set up, migrate, theme and look after OJS installations — then handle the parts that decide whether anyone ever finds the articles: Crossref DOIs, JATS XML, full-text HTML galleys, and indexing applications.

Practice
Srinivas Krishna
Platform
OJS 3.x · PKP suite · OPS · Janeway
Journals
ReAttach Affect Coach · IJSRMT
Contact

Contents

What I actually do all day

Most of it is invisible when it works. All of it is loudly visible when it doesn't.

001

Installation & migration

New OJS installs, version upgrades, and moves from OJS 2, WordPress or a folder of loose PDFs — without breaking existing URLs or losing back issues.

014

Theme & front end

Child themes built on the PKP defaults: journal identity, issue covers, article landing pages, readable typography, and the responsive fixes nobody budgets for.

029

DOI & Crossref

Prefix setup, deposit configuration, retrospective registration of the whole back catalogue, reference and funding metadata, and untangling deposits that quietly failed months ago.

046

JATS XML & galleys

Full-text XML produced from Word or InDesign, plus HTML galleys that read properly on a phone and give indexers something better than a flat page image.

061

Indexing & compliance

DOAJ applications and the metadata clean-up they require, OAI-PMH, PKP Preservation Network, ORCID, licensing, and the policy pages reviewers check first.

078

Editorial workflow

Submission forms, review models, section policies and user roles configured to match how your editors already work — plus training for the ones who won't read a manual.

093

Security & hardening

OJS is a PHP application with a database and a public upload path, and it gets treated as one: patching to the current point release, TLS, tightened file permissions, spam and bot mitigation on open registration, backups somebody has actually tried restoring — and clean-up if it's already been got at.

108

Hosting & upkeep

Server setup, backups, scheduled upgrades, plugin conflicts, and answering the email that begins "the site seems to be down".

Full text

One article, three ways out

A PDF for the reader who wants to print it. An HTML galley for the one reading on a train. JATS XML for the machines that index, preserve and cite it. One production pass, no drift between the three. Everything below is live on a journal I run.

Live · affectcoach.com

Research article · ReAttach Affect Coach Journal · ISSN 3051-2492

Gender Differences in Communication Styles Among University Students: An Analytical Study

Marija Paneva & Prof. Dr. Aida Mehrad

https://doi.org/10.26407/hd354971

Abstract · abridged A cross-sectional survey of 260 university students compared four communication styles. Women scored higher on emotional expressiveness, men on the analytical and passive styles, with no significant gap in assertiveness. Together the analytical and emotional styles accounted for roughly 42% of the variance in a logistic model.
  • Communication
  • Gender analysis
  • Psychology
How to cite Paneva, M. & Mehrad, A. (2026). Gender Differences in Communication Styles Among University Students: An Analytical Study. ReAttach Affect Coach Journal. https://doi.org/10.26407/hd354971 · Published under CC BY 4.0

Read the full HTML galley ↗

ReAC · Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026) · pp. 145–152

Role of Social Networking on attitude and emotional intelligence among college students studying abroad, Barcelona Spain

DOI 10.26407/tc3jng70

ReAC · Articles in press (2026)

Gender Differences in Communication Styles Among University Students: An Analytical Study

DOI 10.26407/hd354971

Selected journals

Journals I keep running

Some journals I hand over at launch and never touch again. Others I've looked after for years. Both are fine — say which one you want at the start.

Ongoing · OJS 3.5 · ISSN 3051-2492

ReAttach Affect Coach Journal

affectcoach.com

An independent, founder-led journal in therapeutic practice, published open access under CC BY 4.0. I look after the whole publishing stack — from the theme readers see to the metadata nobody sees.

  • Custom child theme and journal identity
  • PDF, HTML and JATS XML galleys for every article
  • Crossref DOI registration on the 10.26407 prefix
  • Announcements, conference and special-issue pages
  • Bilingual interface, upgrades and day-to-day maintenance
Visit the journal

One-time install · OJS 3.3 · ISSN 2583-4622

International Journal of Scientific Research and Modern Technology

ijsrmt.com

A monthly, multidisciplinary open access journal. I built the installation, configured it and handed it over — the editorial team has run it in-house ever since, publishing every month since 2022 and now into its fifth volume.

  • OJS installation and server configuration
  • Journal identity, theme and static pages
  • Crossref DOI setup on the 10.38124 prefix
  • Sections, user roles and submission workflow
  • Handover with documentation for the editorial team
Visit the journal

How it goes

No discovery phase

First

An audit

Send me the URL. I'll come back with what's broken, what's merely untidy, and what will get you rejected by DOAJ — in plain language, in writing.

Then

A fixed scope

One quote, one timeline, one list of what's included. Migrations and back-catalogue DOI work are priced per issue so the number can't run away from you.

After

Someone to call

Most journals keep me on a small monthly retainer for upgrades and the occasional emergency. No retainer is fine too — I'll leave you documentation either way.

Got a journal that needs sorting out?