SGER: Open Source System for Free Electronic Publishing of Scientific Journals

该项目将开发免费的开源软件，以支持电子研究期刊的工作流程和管理。尽管网络使科学期刊的传播变得容易，但制作电子科学期刊仍然存在很大的障碍和成本。这些成本主要是行政性的，包括管理接收文章、回复作者、招募审稿人等工作流程。目前缺乏免费的开源软件来支持这些关键的行政任务。本项目旨在填补这一空白。该项目的成果有可能通过及时和无摩擦地传播新的科学知识，对科学产生更广泛的重大影响。

This project will develop free, open-source software to support the workflow and administration of electronic research journals. Even though the Web has made is easy to disseminate scientific journals, there are still very significant barriers and costs to producing electronic scientific journals. These costs, which are primarily administrative, include managing the workflow involved in receiving articles, responding to authors, recruiting reviewers, etc. Currently there is a lack of free, open-source software to support these critical administrative tasks. This project aims to fill that void. The fresults of this project have the potential for significant broader impacts on science through its enabling the timely and frictionless dissemination of new scientific knowledge.