Merging OJS

Limitations :

1. Article ID changed.
2. Some components that are not merged and the transfer process must be done manually.
3. Journals can be offline for some time to ensure that there is a similarity of data between previous journals and destination journals.
4. Change of destination url of DOI (need to do manual change request activity to DOI provider like Crossref).

Considerations:

1. Redirection of DOI links to new url.
2. OJS upgrade of journals to make similarity.
3. Backup

Targets:

1. Moving static contents.
2. Transferring article data with publishing status.
3. Transferring user data.

Shortcomings:

1. In the articles, we have to assign user manually.
2. If there is a review, submission, or copyediting process that you want to move, you have to do the process manually one by one manually, at this time we have not found the right method to automate this process.
3. Usage Statistics of each published article will be 0.
4. The date in the statistics will be reset to the date when you import data into the journal.

Workflow:

1. OJS upgrade to match version of all journals.
2. Create journal and copy static content manually.
3. Transfer articles, issues, users
4. Update articles