OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of refereed research.

Web server with the following:
PHP 5.x or later (PHP 4.2.x+ supported with OJS < 2.4.x only) with MySQL or PostgreSQL support
A database server: MySQL 3.23 or later OR PostgreSQL 7.1 or later
UNIX-like OS recommended (such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.). OJS 2.0.2 and above supports Windows servers (including IIS).