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	=== Open Journal Systems
	=== The Public Knowledge Project
	=== Version: Dev
	=== Release date: N/A
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About
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Open Journal Systems (OJS) has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project.
For more information about OJS and other open research systems, visit our web
site at <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/>.


License
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OJS is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. See the file
docs/COPYING for the complete terms of this license.


System Requirements
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Recommended:
	* PHP >= 4.2.x
	* MySQL >= 3.23.23 or PostgreSQL >= 7.1
	* Apache >= 1.3.2x or >= 2.0.4x
	* Operating system: Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X

Other versions or platforms may work but are not supported or have not been
tested.


Installation
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To install OJS:
	1. Extract the OJS archive into your web documents directory.
	2. Make the following files and directories writeable:
	   * config.inc.php (optional -- if not writable you will be prompted to
	     manually overwrite this file during installation)
	   * locale/cache
	   * templates/t_cache
	   * templates/t_compile
	3. Open a web browser to <http://yourdomain.com/path/to/ojs/> and follow
	   the on-screen installation instructions.


Localization
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To add support for other languages, the following sets of files must be
localized and placed in an appropriately named directory:
	* locale/en_US/*.xml
	* dbscripts/xml/data/locale/en_US/*.xml
	* help/en_US/toc/*.xml
	* help/en_US/topic/*.xml

Server requirements for full Unicode (UTF-8) support:
	* MySQL >= 4.1.1 or PostgreSQL >= 7.x
	* PHP >= 4.3.0 compiled with support for the mbstring library


Third-party Libraries
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	* See lib/libraries.txt for a list of third-party libaries used by this
	  application.


Contact/Support
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Forum: <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/support/>
Bugs: <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/bugzilla/>
Email: <[email protected]>