ajnyga/forthcoming

OJS3 plugin for showing forthcoming articles

Forthcoming articles plugin for OJS 3.4

This is a complete rewrite of the old Forthcoming plugin which changes the whole concept of the plugin and uses the versioning features of OJS 3.2+. The new version supports statistics and using DOIs. Forthcoming articles also have their own landing pages in the same url as the final article.

Usage

Settings

1. Create a new issue and name it for example "Forthcoming" and publish the issue
2. Enable the Forthcoming plugin from OJS Settings
3. In the plugin settings, choose the Forthcoming issue from the pull down menu and save settings
4. Go to Navigation menu settings and add the Forthcoming listing page to your menu. If you want a different name, you can just create a new custom url menu item and point it to the Forthcoming listing page.

The plugin will hide the Forthcoming issue from the regular issue archive and redirect all traffic from the issue table of contents page to the custom Forthcoming listing page.

Workflow

1. When you want to add a new article to Forthcoming listing, just choose the Forthcoming issue from the article metadata settings and publish the article. The article is now visible in Forthcoming page.
2. When the actual issue is being published, create a new version for the article, change the issue and publish the new version. The article is no longer visible in the Forthcoming page.

Note. I recommend that you do not use the OJS default pattern for DOIs with this plugin.

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Plugin created by The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (https://tsv.fi/en/).

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forthcoming's Issues

This plugin might not work on OJS 3.2. Is there any solution for this.

I recently upgraded to OJS 3.2.0-1. However this interesting plugin does not work. Is there any solution for this?
Thanks

No settings to click on

In the plugin settings, choose the Forthcoming issue from the pull-down menu and save settings

There is no plugin settings to click. I am on OJS 3.1.2.4. Do you have any ideas why?

Thank you!

https://www.screencast.com/t/rifi4MgttuXQ

Plugin not working with OJS 3.3.0

I recently upgraded to OJS 3.3.0-7. However this usefull plugin does not work. Is there any solution for this?
Thanks

Compatibility with OJS 3.4

The plugin is missing a release for stable-3_4_0.

PR

• #17

Plugin not working with OJS 3.1.1.4

I can enable the plugin from the control panel, but the checkbox "Publish as forthcoming" is missing from the "Schedule for Publication" modal dialog. I'm using the lastest version, as downlodaed from this repository.

PDF Plugin

Hi ajnyga,
thank you for this very useful plugin! We would like to use it for one of our journals.
Regarding the the PDF plugin:
The articles are retrieved with the link "forthcoming/article/\d+/\d+", therefore the PdfJsViewer Plugin does nor work.
This is not the case when using "article/view". If the article is included in the statistics count, I think it would be OK.
Do you think using "article/view" implies other side effects?

Best regards

Consistency in the publication date issue for google scholar.

Dear ajnyga

Hope this text finds you well. I found some issues with using forthcoming
As per google scholar indexing guidelines, the issue publication date and article publication date should be the same (https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/google-scholar/en/#check-for-consistency-in-the-publication-date). The forthcoming issue needs to publish to show the article. But this time changing the publication date during full issue publication seems not ethical and versioning the article also not giving a good result for indexing.

I am suggesting that to add a no-index tag for the forthcoming articles only.

Thank you in advance.

I have facing issue on OJS 3.2 version. It is not working forthcoming plugin

Hi, @ajnyga
I am using OJS 3.2. I have installed Forthcoming article but that is working on this version. Could you please resolve this issue. Your plugin is very interesting and helpful for the journal.
Thanks in advance

Best Regards,
Shahid Asghar

Articles still appears in Forthcoming page after adding to an Issue

The Forthcoming plugin is working fine with Plant Science Today journal. My worries are:

1. Articles still appears in the Forthcoming page after adding to an Issue. However, when clicked, article details will be listed under the new issue.
2. For a journal, Editor/Admin can create any number of Forthcoming issues. But this would lead to several issues. For example, I created a forthcoming issue for Vol.8(4) and named it as "Vol.8(4) Early Access" and added articles. When I want to publish new issue Vol.8(4), I have created new version of the articles and published the new issue. So this new issue becomes the CURRENT issue. After that, I created another forthcoming issue for the next issue, named as "Vol.9(1) Early Access", this issue becomes the forthcoming issues and started adding articles. Now the problem is "Vol.8(4) Early Access" appeared under the ARCHIVES page. So there will be 2 issues for Vol.8(4). ie. "Vol.8(4) Early Access" and "Vol.8(4)". If this is not the way for implementing the forthcoming issue, there should be ONLY ONE forthcoming issue. But, in this single forthcoming issue, all articles published as forthcoming articles will be listed even after moving the articles to the normal issues.
3. Instead of creating several forthcoming issues, I think one should create only one forthcoming issue, but once a forthcoming article is published as part of a normal issue, this should disappear from the forthcoming page. Otherwise, 1000s of articles can be present in the forthcoming page after few years of publishing.
   Thanks
   Sabu