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
