Here's a late addition to my list of open source software available to publishers. Open Medicine, an open-access medical journal, posted an article (No budget, no worries: Free and open source publishing software in biomedical publishing)about open source options for smaller publishers of scholarly journals. |
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My original plan was to look at ecommerce in great depth, with the possibility for setting up a dummy ecommerce site using Drupal. But my research keeps moving me in the direction of open source software. Ecommerce is only part of the story. |
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A good source for comparing CMS (both commercial and open source) is http://www.cmsmatrix.org/. I created the attached table by choosing data for only four OS CMS: Drupal, Joomla, Plone, and Typo3. |
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It has not been easy posting photos since this site migrated to the GW website. I'm experimenting with a couple of screen shots, but so far it's been too clunky. |
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Every newby website developer must feel a similar rush: With this knowledge, I can do anything. Even as a write content for this project--spending more time on open source than I'd like and not touching on ecommerce yet--I have started to see the potential for starting a web-based publishing business. |
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On Sunday, Arnie spent some time helping me post this website on the GW server. While I've lost some of the "privacy" the would come from designing this page in my local sandbox, it has given me the thrill of having something live on the 'net. Now that the thrill has worn off a bit, I'm seeing other advantages to having the site posted. The foremost of these is that I can work on it from any computer that has Internet access. Now that Drupal is install with the site, it reminds me of "cloud computing". All of the content and tools are hosted "out there" as a service. |
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I'm just saying... they'd be nice to have... |
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In-Sites’ current electronic strategy worked well when the magazine made the leap from print to electronic formats in 2004, but much has change on the web since then, particularly in the area of interactivity. This paper recommends revising the electronic strategy to include some of these advances, particularly Web 2.0 functionality. |
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