Demo

You can upload your own manuscripts to the demo site or watch a video for the import and export below.

Try it yourself

Try it now.

The file being used in the demo is this .docx file.

The files we used in one of our Community Calls to demonstrate the import of LaTeX files can be found in this .zip file.

Recorded demo

To get a quick impression of the import and export as PDF, HTML or XML, we have recorded demo videos.

Please note that sometimes the videos do not play in Firefox or Safari, but it works in Edge, Opera and Chrome.

Preparing and importing a manuscript

Exporting PDF, HTML, and XML with custom settings

Publications

Original Proposals

Original proposal OS-APS (DE)

Original proposal OS-APS STEMO (DE)

Articles

Borchert, C.; Cozatl, R.; Eichler, F.; Hoffmann, A.; Putnings, M. Automatic XML Extraction from Word and Formatting of E-Book Formats: Insight into the Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS). Publications 2023, 11, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications11010001

Borchert, C., & Hoffmann, A. (2022). Open-Access-Publikationen mit OS-APS medienneutral und mit automatisiertem Corporate Design erstellen: Anforderungserhebung, Schlussfolgerungen für den Publikationsworkflow und Stand der Umsetzung. O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal / Herausgeber VDB, 9(4), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/5859

Putnings, Markus, Borchert, Carsten and Cozatl, Roberto. “Ein Einblick in das BMBF-Projekt Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS)” ABI Technik, vol. 42, no. 3, 2022, pp. 166-173. https://doi.org/10.1515/abitech-2022-0030

Conferences and Workshops

• Enable!-Werkstattgespräch 2021 (cf. https://enable-oa.org/news/einladung-zum-werkstatt-gespraech-mit-dem-bmbf-projekt-os-aps-open-source-academic-publishing)
• Library Publishing Forum 2021 (cf. https://librarypublishing.org/lpf21-lightning-talks/)
• DINI-Jahrestagung 2021 (cf. https://dini.de/fileadmin/JT_21/DINI_2021_Poster_OS-APS.pdf)
• Munin Konferenz 2021 (cf. https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/6188)
• Open Access Tage 2021 (cf. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526591)
• Bibliothekskongress 2022 (cf. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-178739)
• PUBMET2022 - The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science (cf. https://pubmet2022.unizd.hr/session/automatic-xml-extraction-from-word-and-formatting-of-e-book-formats-insight-into-the-open-source-academic-publishing-suite-os-aps-project/#)
• OASPA 2022 Conference (cf. https://oaspa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hoffman-OASPA_Poster-OS-APS_2022-09-09.pdf)
• BiblioCon 2024 (cf. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-189078)
• Open Access Tage 2024 (cf. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13898477)
• Charleston Conference 2024

Source Code

The libraries and templates are both available under a MIT style license.

The most important links are:

• Example template repository for you to copy and add to your own instance of OS-APS.
• Documentation to learn how to configure & build new templates, or host the software. This also includes videos on how to set up your development environment.
• Library source code (MIT) in case you want to modify parts of the libraries themselves or propose changes.
• Documentation and code for harvesting and export of datasets from the ULB Sachsen-Anhalt’s OJS/OMP installations to a DSpace based repository.

Last but not least, we do host an OS-APS instance ourselves if you do not want to run your own instance.

If you have feedback or questions, please feel free to join our Slack channel and start a conversation.