Circulation Manager for an Academic Journal?

kokaubeam asks: "I've been working for several years in the publication office of a small academic journal and am currently in the process of reworking our circulation management system. For a variety of reasons, a web-based system seems to make the most sense, and although I'm not too concerned about just sitting down and hacking one out, I'd much rather contribute to an existing open source project (if one exists that would fit the bill) than reinvent the wheel. After several hours scouring the web, I've yet to come up with anything that seems even close. I need something to manage the names and (postal) addresses of subscribers, securely store payment information, and print slip sheets or mailing labels. Any language would be fine, but PHP would be ideal since I'd like to integrate the subscription system with manuscript and book review management systems I'm working on. Does Slashdot have any suggestions for projects that I may have overlooked?"

Comments

OJS

[suid77]

While its not strictly a circulation managment system, Open Journal Systems (http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/) is about the most robust, open source journal managment system around -- including some functionality for subscription based journals.

Version 2 was released within the past few weeks, and may include some of the features you're looking for -- and if not, this is probably the most mature system of it's type if you're looking to add/contribute.

I'm guessing that printing mailing labels from a web interface will be a difficult feature to find in an existing project.

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[bobbozzo]

FWIW, it's not hard to make PDFs from PHP, etc. (for the labels)

If you have a PostScript 3 printer, you can send them directly to the printer without a driver.