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Living Systems Research
Draft aims and scope across eight subject areas, from molecular and cell biology to evolution and ecology, with research articles and short reports.
Open-access scholarly publishingIn development
TheTrasportos Publisher
A publishing imprint preparing its first journal, Living Systems Research: open-access, peer-reviewed research on how living systems work.
Status: Journal platform built and tested locally. Deployment, real ISSN and indexing applications are pending; the development site uses sample articles only.
Not public yet. Planned address: thetrasportos.com/lsr.
Overview
The opportunity
The problem
Many new journals launch on a default template with thin metadata, inaccessible pages and third-party scripts, which makes them harder to trust, harder to index and harder to read.
Our answer
Open Journal Systems 3.5 — the established open-source platform — with a custom editorial theme and a search plugin, rather than a bespoke system. The theme adds what core OJS lacks (canonical URLs, richer descriptions, accessible pages) and loads no third-party scripts or fonts.
Who it serves
- Researchers in molecular, cell, computational, plant and ecological biology
- Reviewers and editors who need a clear, standard editorial workflow
- Readers and indexers who rely on complete, machine-readable metadata
Its place in Trasportos
Our publishing line: long-horizon infrastructure for research communication, built to the metadata standards indexers expect.
What makes it distinct
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A theme built for reading
An editorial “Bioscience” theme for OJS 3.5 with inline HTML full text, citation tools and self-hosted fonts; no core files modified.
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Metadata indexers can use
Google Scholar citation tags, Dublin Core, OAI-PMH, a sitemap and feeds, with DOI support ready for a Crossref membership.
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Search that says what it covers
A search-filter plugin for subjects, types and dates, with copy that is honest about metadata-only search until full-text indexing is configured.
Case study
How it was built
- Built on Open Journal Systems
- OJS 3.5
- Subject areas
- 8
- Third-party scripts on public pages
- 0
Objective
Establish an open-access publishing imprint with a first journal whose platform meets indexing and accessibility expectations from day one.
Implementation
OJS 3.5 installed and provisioned reproducibly in a local WSL environment with seeded configuration.
A standalone theme plugin and a search plugin; core workflows (submission, review, production) left untouched.
Canonical URLs, article and issue descriptions, and accessible static pages added where core OJS falls short.
Deployment package and step-by-step cPanel guide prepared for thetrasportos.com/lsr.
Current state
In development. The journal is not yet accepting submissions, and its development site contains sample articles only. Launch needs hosting set-up, an ISSN, approved policies and the editorial board’s confirmation.
Outcome
No outcome figures are published yet. We will add them here once they are verified and the venture is ready to share them.
Built with
- Open Journal Systems 3.5
- PHP 8.3
- MariaDB
- Smarty templates
- Vanilla CSS & JS
- Lighthouse QA
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