OJS

OJS is an open source software (OSS) program that runs on a web server. It can be freely downloaded from: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs. OJS is developed by "The Public Knowledge Project" which is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. It operates through a partnership among the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library, the School of Education at Stanford University, and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University.
 * Introduction

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Journal_Systems

The above structure is commonly called the "LAMP stack". Click on the link above.
 * Hosting Server Structure
 * 1) Linux Server
 * 2) Apache Web Server
 * 3) MySQL Database Server
 * 4) PHP web programming language
 * Deployment
 * 1) A virtual machine is created on the private campus cloud per journal and the Ubuntu Linux server software is installed.
 * 2) It is given the hostname assigned for the journal. For example; http://orion.journals.ac.za and the LAMP stack is installed.
 * 3) Then the OJS software is installed.
 * 4) Then the system is handed over to the OJS super administrator who will then setup the journal together with the journal owners.
 * 5) At regular intervals the software is upgraded to fix security bugs and introduce new features.
 * IT System Administrators