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Winter 2013
Chatty CATIE: Got Ink?
4 people with HIV talk about their tats and all that
Interviews by RonniLyn Pustil
Robert MacLeod, 36
How many tattoos do you have?
Why so many?
This is a question I get asked a lot. Tattoos are my passion, my hobby, my obsession. I got each one for a different reason.
What are some of the reasons?
Each tattoo has a unique source of inspiration. When something happens in my life that I feel is significant or meaningful, I add a new tattoo to represent that event. That way, I'll always remember that moment in time.
What do your tattoos represent to you?
My skin is a living canvas of my experiences. My life's story is etched in the lines and shading. I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin. The connection goes way beyond a needle and some ink: It's about art, expression and sharing.
How do people generally react?
Reactions are mixed. The first impression I give to the world is not an accurate picture of who I am—people think I just got out of prison or I'm a thug. I actually have a successful professional life! But most reactions are positive. People often stare and I get a lot of strange looks. They always want to know why I have so many tattoos. I don't feel I need to justify this in any way. Simply put, tattoos are my passion and I take pride in them.
Do you have plans for any more?
Absolutely! As my life's story continues to write itself, there will be more important times and events to represent. I can tell you what I was feeling at the time I got each piece and what it means to me. Years from now, when my life story ends, it will all be there in permanent ink.
Mike O'Shaughnessy, 40
How many tattoos do you have?
Many, all over my upper body.
Why did you get them all?
Originally, as markings to remind myself of specific events. Now they are ways to redefine how I'm seen and how I see myself. In effect, I draw the person and the life I want on my own skin.
What's the story behind them?
Each tattoo was inspired by something important to me—either something beautiful or a life-altering experience.
The first was a small rune that means "See-er of truth." It's over my heart—a reminder to remain true to myself.
The tattoo on my back, designed using tribal styling, hints at wings—representing flight, freedom and, as they extend onto the upper backs of my arms, protection. The designs were extended onto my upper chest and into sleeves for both arms.
The last tattoo to date is a set of letters—LJ, the initials of a man I loved very much, Little John. It was commissioned as he was dying in the hospital in 2005 from AIDS. In the last real conversation I had with him, I took his hand, as he was almost blind by this point, and traced the letters with his fingers, explaining that he would be, for all time, a part of my skin, of me. He died two days later.
How do people react to them?
Often with a prejudiced sense of who I am.
Frankly, it's useful as a gay man. Sometimes, when I'm walking around late at night, people see a shaved-head, bearded, jeans-and-boots kind of guy with tattoos. It's easy to just leave it at that and be left alone. In other circles, people find them attractive and striking. Those who approach me about them are often surprised and amazed by the clarity and depth of the colour and the overall sense of coherent design. Among gay men, it's often an excuse to touch my arms (laughs).
Do you have plans for any more?
At some point I'd like to get my legs done with something evoking earth. Tattoos truly are addictive.
Catherine, 34
How many tattoos do you have?
What's the story behind it?
I became close friends with a woman from the Bahamas. We're now like sisters—we say we're sisters by choice. We're both transsexual. When I was visiting her in the Bahamas, four or five years ago, we got the same tattoo: a butterfly. For me, it's a symbol of being trans. It's on my left breast. When I wear something low-cut, you can see it.
Plans for any more?
I'm thinking of getting another one on my arm. I'm an activist when it comes to trans rights, and I'm proud of it. There's a trans logo, which consists of an arrow on top and a cross on the bottom—a combination of the man and woman symbols. I found one on the Internet that's really nice; it's done in a Celtic style. That's the one I'd like to get. I need to be proud of being trans and live it.
I might get it this winter. Since I hate pain, I need a good reason to get another one!
Kyle Vose, 40
What's the story behind your tattoos?
I always wanted a tattoo when I was younger but I grew up religious and was told it was wrong. When I came out, my religion was taken away from me, so I got my first tattoo about 11 years ago.
How many do you have?
Ten. My first one was a flying fire-breathing dragon with blood coming out of his claws. I got another one on my other arm in Hebrew script—chai, the Hebrew word for life. On my back I have two tattoos that are for my kids: One is a heart with both of their names in it and the other is a little map of Ecuador, where their mother is from. I also have a tribal tattoo on my back. From my pelvis to my belly button, I have a tribal-floral image with a couple of thistles coming out of it. The flowers symbolize life, but the thistles mean, if you treat me the wrong way, I'll hurt you.
Do you regret getting any of them?
One of my tattoos got me infected with HIV and hepatitis B. I had it done at someone's house who was learning to be a tattoo artist. I don't blame them. You have to know the risk when you're going into something. You can't expect someone else to protect you when it's your job to protect yourself. I ended up in the hospital exactly three weeks after that tattoo, so I figured it was that.
Do you want to get rid of that tattoo?
That tattoo is a garden—sometimes you plant something and you might not get exactly what you were expecting. I'm very spiritual, so I feel like this might have been given to me for a reason. A lot of people make mistakes, so why am I going to beat myself up for it? I'm going to use it to my advantage, as a stepping stone and not as a crutch.
How do people generally react to your tattoos?
The Hebrew ones get the most reaction. I almost got fired from a job because I offended an Orthodox person with my Hebrew tattoos. And I get a lot of people asking what they mean. That's usually an opening for me to do outreach about what I do.
Do you have advice for people who want a tattoo?
If you're getting a tattoo for a relationship, have a backup plan in case it doesn't work out. You might need to get creative if the relationship doesn't survive.
Plans for any more?
I'd like to get at least one or two more. At age 22, I had Hodgkin's disease. I struggled through it but I survived. After that, I got HIV and hepatitis B. Then I had a heart attack and they didn't think I was going to make it. And now I have diabetes. It's amazing that I'm still here. So I want to get a hand tattooed on my ankle to symbolize somebody or something pulling me back down to earth, to keep me here. There's still more work for me to do—it's not time for me to go yet.


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'Ironside,' 'The Originals' new dramas on TV
Ironside: 10 p.m. Wednesday, NBC.
The Originals: premiere 9 p.m. Thursday; regular time-slot premiere 8 p.m. Oct. 8, the CW.
"Ironside" and "The Originals" are moderately entertaining dramas that feed off the success of previous shows. Yes, vampirism is undead and well in the television industry.
The first "Ironside" starred Raymond Burr and aired from 1967 to '75, following his long-running portrayal of the grumpy but masterful defense attorney in "Perry Mason." Blair Underwood ("The Event") stars in the remake, premiering Wednesday on NBC. Other than the fact that Bob Ironside is in a wheelchair, the new version is a fairly standard police procedural.
The pilot tells us how Ironside lost the use of his legs through a series of flashbacks showing him getting shot while on a case with his partner, Gary Stanton (Brent Sexton, "The Killing"). Before the shooting, Ironside had a fiancee and a bright future as a cop. Although Bob insists he's accepted his physical status, there's still a mountain of anger inside, which he draws on to become relentless in his pursuit of bad guys.
The character exposition is set against the supposed suicide of a beautiful young woman who had worked in an investment firm. Ironside suspects there's more to her death than first meets the eye, and of course he's right.
The case isn't all that interesting, which suggests the biggest challenge for "Ironside" to succeed: If its point is to show a guy who is abler than any walking detective at solving crimes, the crimes have to be worthy. We understand Ironside's character, the roiling inner conflict he feels. But if he isn't going to let the chair hold him back, give him something formidable to solve. The last thing TV needs is another police procedural if it's one that isn't going to establish itself as something different and more worthy than the rest of the bunch.
Good supporting cast
Underwood is OK, if a little too hungry to chew the scenery, but the supporting cast is very good, including Sexton as the other "victim" of the shooting, who feels guilty for not having his partner's back; TV's busiest character actor, Pablo Schreiber ("Orange Is the New Black"), as one of Ironside's team; Spencer Grammer ("Greek") as brainy and beautiful cop Holly; and Kenneth Choi ("House") as the captain whose primary job is to tell Ironside to follow the rules. There's one in every procedural, or so it seems.
"Ironside" might be a better show if it didn't follow the "rules" of standard police procedurals quite so faithfully.
"The Originals" is about actual vampires, not to mention witches and hybrids - that would be a werewolf-vampire mix, not a Toyota Prius - and it's a spinoff from another CW hit, "The Vampire Diaries."
In truth, "The Originals," premiering Thursday before moving to its regular Tuesday time slot next week, is even more than a typical spinoff. Usually, the offspring show pulls one or maybe two characters from the original, but "The Originals" has imported a small truckload, including the jolly Mikaelson clan, vampire Elijah (Daniel Gillies, "Saving Hope"), sister Rebekah (Claire Holt, "H2O: Just Add Water") and the aforementioned hybrid, Klaus (Joseph Morgan, "Casualty"). Other carpetbaggers include Marcel Gerard (Charles Michael Davis, "The Game"), a vampire who has supposedly driven the werewolves out of New Orleans and found a way to neutralize the city's witches, who have to stay in town because they practice ancestral witchcraft and would lose their powers if they stray too far from their dead ancestors. Davis and a few other actors did just one episode of "Diaries," setting the stage for the spinoff.
Back to New Orleans
Klaus comes back to New Orleans because the witch Jane-Anne Deveraux (Malaya Rivera Drew) is conspiring against him. He has an edgy but friendly reunion with his former protege, Marcel, but before he can find out why Jane-Anne is out to get him, Marcel fillets her neck.
Well, these things happen.
Elijah wants Klaus to square off against Marcel to restore the Originals - the city's first vampires - to power. But with Jane-Anne gone, why should Klaus care? Maybe the beautiful stranger, Hayley Marshall (Phoebe Tonkin, "The Secret Circle"), will play a role in Klaus' inevitable prediction. Perhaps Jane-Anne's surviving sister, Sophie (Daniella Pineda, "Newlyweds"), may as well.
It's all rather fun because it's shamelessly preposterous. Although there may be new characters, "The Originals" isn't original at all, but that's why it stands a chance of doing well among "The Vampire Diaries" fans.
The performances are over the top and enjoyable enough. Morgan gets a little road-show Shakespearean here and there, but that's what vampire show fans want. The only clinker is Tonkin: Her line delivery isn't even good enough to be called amateurish. She's likely to remain a pretty but unconvincing lump in the middle of the show if she, and the show, survive.
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's executive features editor and TV critic. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV


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"Queen Mary 2- Auckland to Sydney"
Queen Mary 2 is the most luxurious experience we have had by far. The White star service was far superior then any other cruise lines and staff were extremely professional and always polite going out of their way to assist. Every staff member acknowledged you with a smile as they passed by. The ship is beautiful, and would ideally suit professionals and retired couples. The ship is so huge that you had space to be by yourself away from other passengers. The food onboard is brilliant, whether you had fine dinning or for the buffet, the standards and food choice were fantastic. The cabin was always clean to a very high standard. This ship however would not be suited for children. Lots of entertainment onboard and with worlds largest floating planetarium and library you always had something to do onboard. We had such a great time and felt so relaxed. The ship is a ocean liner, so we could not feel any movement despite sailing through some rough weather. Cunard's White Star service is luxury 7 star, better than any service we have ever experienced. Planning our next trip shortly to try Cunards other Queens. Highly recommended to those who want to experience luxury and style, then this Oceanliner is for you.Read more
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Queen Mary - Loved the Ship the Crew were so helpful We did do it a little cheaper by sharing a cabin and it was just too cramped. So we are going again in 2017 just from Melbourne to Sydney 14 nights. Really looking forward to being on board again Loved the Library and the shows were wonderful Have booked and so looking forward to being back on the QM2 you are beautiful and I want more photos of cruising up the Sydney Harbor as The Commodore says The Worlds Best Harbor and its in AustraliaRead more
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"Lovers of The Queen Mary 2 "
Second time on Queen Mary 2 . February 2017 . Wonderful as we were last on 2013 around New Zealand. This time we had an Obstructed View Balcony Cabin. Superb . Obstruction was minor, I would recommend to try. Loved it on deck 8 .We had an 8 seating table and the fellow travelers were a real bunch of fun travelers. Loved meeting up for High Tea each day and discussing our excursions each evening. Love Queen Mary wouldn't sail any other ship. Crew are very helpful and fellow passengers are very nice . So our next voyage will be within the next two years as Pensioners we look forward to our next Sailing.Read more
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A Queens Suite on the QMII is a luxury I would love every year. Smooth sailing, quiet grandeur, superb dining room staff serving spectacular meals. Watching the sea roll by on our balcony or enjoying cocktails in the Commodore Club or high tea in the Queens Room - every thing was professionally done and seamless. We were on board the first time the QMII entered Adelaide & Fremantle ports. The excitement was terrific with crowds lining the shores at dawn, cameras flashing in the half light. The ship's horn sounded loud & clear as she announced her arrival. To be part of these events was enough to make the trip worthwhile but there was so much more that has made wonderful memories.Read more
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THE CITY OF GREENVILLE traces its beginnings back to the site of a pre-Revolutionary War Indian trading post and mill run by Richard Pearis, who established his camp on Cherokee land. In addition to the trading post, Pearis built a house, smoke house, stables, dairy, blacksmith shop, sawmill, grist mill and slave quarters.
In 1797, Lemuel Alston purchased this land and obtained several surrounding tracts, totaling more than 11,000 acres, and established the village he called Pleasantburg. It wasn't long before the name changed to Greeneville, but Alston's dream of developing the land fell far short of his original plan. Though a log jail and courthouse were built, only a few lots were sold. Discouraged, Alston sold the land and his family home, Prospect Hill, to Vardry McBee of Lincolnton, North Carolina.
McBee, through a series of partnerships and business deals, grew the village to a town. Firmly established as a center of trade, Greenville became a resort for residents of Charleston escaping the malaria and heat of the coastal area.
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Today, Greenville maintains its place as a center of trade. Located in the Piedmont section of South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Greenville is on one of the nation's busiest interstates, I-85, which connects the city to major metropolitan areas such as Atlanta and Charlotte. Many companies have headquarters or major presences in Greenville, including Bowater International, Ernst and Young, and IBM.
While Greenville is enjoying prosperity, there's much more to the city than just business. It is also the cultural and entertainment center for the Upstate, as this area is known by the locals. The award-winning downtown area has been revitalized with new shops and restaurants. There is a major performing arts center, as well as an arena seating 17,000 and exhibition center. Greenville offers plenty of outdoor activity, with 39 parks and recreation areas, including Falls Park on the Reedy, downtown.


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With just over a month until Myanmar's landmark elections, there are rising concerns over the use of religion to stoke fears and marginalize minorities.
Myanmar's election commission has announced its second round of voter lists for the upcoming general elections, the first since decades of military rule ended in 2011.
A Rohingya refugee who recently came to Cambodia as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia, is preparing to leave.
Myanmar's president on Monday signed into law the last of four controversial bills championed by radical Buddhists but decried by rights groups as aimed at discriminating against the country's Muslim minority.
"As for the happenings in the middle of the night, this is not what you expect from a working democracy," Aung San Suu Kyi said.
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The United Nations is stepping up its emergency aid to Myanmar, where massive floods have killed at least 96 people in the country's Irrawaddy delta region.
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The civilian-led government of Myanmar has appealed for urgent international assistance to help aid victims of the country's recent flooding.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited one of the country's many flood-hit areas, raising her profile amid a national disaster that could have consequences in this November's general election.
Myanmar authorities say 21 people died in July, and that between 67,000 and 110,000 people were "severely affected" by the floods, according to an update from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).


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Treveon Graham scored 17 point as hot-shooting VCU beat Saint Joseph's 82-79 in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament Friday night in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Rams, seeded second and ranked 25th by The Associated Press, made 11 3-pointers to build a double-digit lead in the second half before the Hawks' frantic comeback in the final minutes fell short. VCU will face Massachusetts in a semifinal at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Barclays Center.
Darius Theus, from Norcom High, had 12 points and six assists, making all five of his field-goal attempts. Five players scored in double figures for VCU (25-7).
Tenth-seeded Saint Joseph's pulled within 80-76 with 9.1 seconds left, but Theus found an open Briante Weber downcourt for an emphatic slam to cap the victory. Weber, from Great Bridge High in Chesapeake, set a VCU single-season record for steals.
Carl Jones scored 29 points and Langston Galloway had 25 for the Hawks (18-13).
The Rams left behind the advantage of playing their conference tournament in Richmond when they departed the Colonial Athletic Association for the A-10 this season. Not that anyone could tell Friday, with a large contingent of fans in black and gold roaring every time VCU forced a turnover or drained a 3-pointer.
Also in the crowd at Brooklyn's Barclays Center was noted New York City basketball fan Spike Lee.
VCU scored seven straight points in 90 seconds to break open the game midway through the second half. The Hawks' Halil Kanacevic, who was also in the middle of some chippy moments in the first half, was called for a flagrant foul after his elbow smacked Graham in the jaw as the Saint Joseph's forward drove to the basket.
Graham made both free throws, then Troy Daniels made a 3 for a five-point possession. When Theus blew past Jones for an uncontested layup, VCU was suddenly up 58-43.
The Rams forced 17 turnovers and converted them into 25 points. Weber made five steals.
More Atlantic 10 quarterfinals:
Chaz Williams, a 5-foot-9 guard, had his second straight big game back home in Brooklyn, scoring 28 points as sixth-seeded Massachusetts upset No. 3 Temple 79-74. The Minutemen sent their rivals out of the A-10 with a loss.
"I was just doing what the team needs me to do," Williams said.
Terrell Vinson added 15 points, including a 3-pointer in the final minute with the shot clock winding down and UMass clinging to a two-point lead.
Conference Player of the Year Khalif Wyatt shot just 4-for-19 for Temple, with Williams one of the players tasked with guarding him. Wyatt was 9-for-10 on free throws to finish with 19 points for the Owls, who still likely will make the NCAA tournament. ...
Rotnei Clarke led five Bulldogs in double figures with 14 points in Butler's 69-58 win over La Salle. The Explorers must await their NCAA tournament fate.
Khyle Marshall had 13 points, and Andrew Smith added 11 points and eight rebounds for the fifth-seeded Bulldogs, who face regular-season champion Saint Louis in Saturday's semifinals.
Clinging to a one-point lead early in the second half, Butler went to work inside. Smith scored in the paint, Marshall had a dunk, and Kameron Woods completed a three-point play after a putback.
The 11-2 run gave the Bulldogs (26-7) a double-digit lead, and they held off fourth-seeded La Salle (21-9) the rest of the way.
Tyreek Duren led the Explorers with 19 points on 8-of-13 shooting.
Saint Louis, ranked 16th nationally, beat Charlotte 72-55 as Dwayne Evans had 25 points and nine rebounds.
In the last game, No. 3 Temple was to face No. 6 Massachusetts.
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Adrian Powell had 23 points and nine rebounds as No. 7 seed North Carolina A&T beat No. 6 Delaware State 84-78 to reach the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament final at Norfolk Scope Arena.
The Aggies will play for the crown and an automatic NCAA tournament bid at 5 p.m. Sunday against No. 5 Morgan State.
Tahj Tate, the hero of Delaware State's quarterfinal win over Hampton, had 19 points and six rebounds.
Morgan State's Shaquille Duncan scored 17 points, and Justin Black and DeWayne Jackson added 16 each as the Bears defeated Bethune-Cookman 82-71.
The fifth-seeded Bears (17-14), the highest seed to reach the semifinals in a tournament in which the top four lost in the quarterfinals, held Adrien Coleman, the conference scoring leader, to eight points. He had totaled 52 points for the eighth-seeded Wildcats (14-20) in tournament victories over Coppin State and top-seeded Norfolk State.
Morgan State scored the first seven points and never trailed in extending its winning streak to eight games. The Bears shot 64.3 percent (18 of 28) in the first half and took a 39-31 lead into the break.
Kevin Dukes led Bethune-Cookman with 20 points.
MEAC women
Saadia Doyle propelled third-seeded Howard past No. 2 North Carolina A&T 55-42 to earn a berth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament final at Norfolk Scope Arena.
The Bison, coached by Phoebus High graduate Niki Reid Geckeler, got 27 points and 10 rebounds from Doyle, a first-team All-MEAC choice. They will face three-time defending champion Hampton University, the No. 1 seed, at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Eboni Ross and JaQuayla Berry scored 10 apiece for the Aggies.
CAA women
James Madison struggled with its shooting for much of the game but never trailed in a 59-48 victory over Towson in the Colonial Athletic Association women's tournament's first round in Upper Marlboro, Md.
The second-seeded Dukes advanced to Saturday's 4:30 p.m. semifinal in The Show Place Arena against third-seeded Drexel, which easily eliminated William and Mary.
Freshman Precious Hall led JMU with 16 points, eight of which came in the first 5:25 of the second half as the Dukes expanded a nine-point halftime lead to 17. Senior guard Tarik Hislop added 13 points and junior Kirby Burkholder had 10 points. Redshirt freshman Jazmon Gwathmey grabbed a season-high 14 rebounds and blocked three shots.
Towson, despite Tanisha McTiller's 27 points and Michelle Peebles' 13, had its three-game winning streak snapped and ended with a 12-18 record. Its coach, Joe Mathews, recently had been told he will not be retained.
In the other half of the bracket, top-seeded Delaware struggled to a 51-43 victory over No. 9 UNC Wilmington behind Elena Delle Donne's 21 points and 13 rebounds.
The Blue Hens (28-3) extended their school-record winning streak to 23 and defeated their 40th straight CAA opponent.
The Blue Hens trailed 20-15 at halftime and 30-28, but then went on an 8-0 run. ...
The Blue Hens will play their semifinal at 2 p.m. Saturday against No. 5 Hofstra, which overcame No. 4 Northeastern 57-52 to reach the semifinals for the first time since 2007.
Sophomore guard Andreana Thomas had 15 points and senior forward Candace Bond added nine points, nine rebounds and three blocks for the Pride (14-16), which avenged two regular-season losses to the Huskies (17-13).


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OMP Userguide
Open Monograph Press (OMP) is an open source tool for managing and publishing monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions over the Web. It is a highly flexible editor-operated book management and publishing system that can be downloaded for free and installed on most web servers. It has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with publishing books, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of publishing through a number of innovations, and includes clear and intuitive workflows for every aspect of the manuscript submission, review, editing and production processes.
- 1 About this Guide
- 2 Introduction
- 3 System Requirements and Installation
- 4 Creating a Press
- 5 Managing Your Press
- 6 Submission Workflow
- 6.1 Workflow overview
- 6.2 Finding and Starting Submissions
- 6.3 Workflow stages
- 6.3.1 Submission
- 6.3.2 Internal review
- 6.3.3 External review
- 6.3.4 Editorial
- 6.3.5 Production
- 7 Catalog Management
About this Guide
- This Userguide is up to date for Open Monograph Press 1.0b, released on September 17 2012.
- OMP itself includes extensive inline documentation describing every component of the user interface. If you think you are missing this inline documentation, ensure that you have Help turned on in the OMP interface (the Help toggle is in the upper-right corner of the Web page).
- This guide is therefore not a comprehensive, piece-by-piece overview of OMP. It instead provides a higher-level overview, describing in more general terms what the software is for; how to configure a press; how monograph submissions of different types are submitted, managed, and published; and how to manage a book catalog.
- If you have any questions about the content of this document, please use the Discussion page. See this Mediawiki help page for information on using talk pages.
- All screenshots were taken from the OMP Demonstration site. Content for this demonstration site, including book cover images, was graciously provided by our partner Athabasca University Press.
Since 1998, the Public Knowledge has been releasing and upgrading software intended to improve the public and scholarly quality of research, and with Open Monograph Press (OMP), it seeks to support a format that remains critical to the advancement of learning.
OMP is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP will operate, as well, as a press website with catalog, distribution, and sales capacities.
OMP is designed to assist university presses, learned societies, and scholar-publishers interested in publishing scholarly books in print-on-demand and multiple electronic formats, whether on an open access or purchase basis. As with all PKP software, OMP can be downloaded for free and installed on a local webserver or it can be hosted by PKP Publishing Services.
Among the many features of OMP is its ability to...
- Handle edited volumes, with different authors for each chapter;
- Involve editors, authors, reviewers, designers, indexers, and others in book production;
- See submission through multiple rounds of both internal and external reviews;
- Utilize industry standard ONIX for bookseller metadata requirements (e.g., Amazon);
- Create document libraries for submissions, recording contracts, permissions, etc.;
- Handle thumbnail covers in Catalog, as well as Spotlight features;
- Enable Series Editors to see books through review to publication.
OMP is a completely new software tool from the Public Knowledge Project. It has been redesigned from the ground up to take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies. As part of OMP's release strategy, PKP will be working closely with several early adopters who will use OMP in a production environment. This will garner immediate feedback and further improvements to OMP and also inform a redesign of Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems, which will drawn on a common PKP Web Library.
OMP was designed in consultation with and support from Athabasca University Press, which has kindly permitted us to use their books and content to populate a demonstration site of OMP, which is used for the OMP screenshots seen here. Potential users of OMP can request access to our demonstration site and try out various roles and processes. OMP has been built with support from the Simon Fraser University Library, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Stanford University. Moving forward, it is anticipated that OMP will continue to be enhanced with a particular focus on pre- and post-publication support.
System Requirements and Installation
System Requirements
Recommended server requirements:
- MySQL >= 3.23.23 (including MySQL 4.x) or PostgreSQL >= 7.1 (including PostgreSQL 8.x)
- Apache >= 1.3.2x or >= 2.0.4x or Microsoft IIS 6
- Operating system: Any OS that supports the above software, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows
As PKP does not have the resources to test every possible combination of software versions and platforms, no guarantee of correct operation or support is implied. We welcome feedback from users who have deployed OMP on systems other than those listed above.
The OMP installation process is identical to other PKP applications such as Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems, and Open Harvester Systems. For detailed installation instructions, see docs/README in the download package.
Creating a Press
During the OMP installation process you need to provide an initial Site Administrator username and password to use the system. When you log in with that username and password, you will be brought to an empty press listing (which can be later returned to from the Site Administrator interface. You may create your new press by clicking the Add Press option and providing your press name; an optional description; and the path from which your press will be found on the Web site.
Clicking Save on the Add Press dialogue will save the information you added, and bring you to a Press Creation wizard. The wizard has six steps that can be filled out (with mandatory fields being marked with an asterisk):
- Masthead, where you fill in general press information and your masthead;
- Contact, where you add contact information for your principal contact;
- Appearance, where various components of the press' appearance, such as headers, footers, and layout, can be configured;
- Submission, where you can configure the press' Submission Checklist presented to authors during the book submission process;
- Indexing, where you add custom search engine indexing words;
- Users, where you can add new initial users to the press.
The wizard includes only the most immediately important options that need to be configured before your press can go live. Once the six steps are complete, your press is live. You can modify these and other options at any time from your Management interface.
Managing Your Press
You can manage different components to your press from the Management drop-down menu in the top Navigation bar. All of the site configuration options are under the Management -> Settings menu. The options you find here control every aspect of the press: how your press looks; how the submission process works; how the publication and distribution processes work; and how users and roles are managed.
Press Settings
In the general Press Settings management section, you can configure overall press options, such as your masthead; contact information; various policies and guidelines to be used within the press; and sponsorship information.
The five tabs are detailed below:
- Masthead: this section contains most of the information that you provided when originally creating your press, (and which can be modified at any time). You can also add a mailing address. All Masthead information will appear under the About menu.
- Contact: this section also contains the Primary Contact information you provided when originally creating your press, and also includes a Technical Support contact option. All Contact information will appear under the About menu.
- Policies: various policies integral to your press may be included here. These include a Copyright Notice; a Privacy Statement; the Focus and Scope of the press; an Open Access policy (if relevant); a Review Policy; and a Competing Interests policy. If these policy options are filled out, the policies will be available in the About menu, and will also be provided in various key parts of the submission, publication or distribution workflow. (For example, if you include a Copyright Notice, authors will see this notice during the submission process.)
- Guides: you may include any relevant Author Guidelines in this section.
- Series: to help organize your publications. A series represents a special set of books devoted to a theme or topics. Visitors will be able to search and browse the press by series.
- Categories: to group books according to subject matter, for example Economics; Literature; Poetry; and so on. Categories may be nested within "parent" categories. Visitors will be able to search and browse the press by category.
- Sponsor: you may add sponsorship information, and any other additional sources of support, in this section.
Website Settings
Website Settings are configuration options that are more relevant to the site as a whole than to the press: the look and feel, available languages, plugins, navigation options, and so on.
- Homepage: you may include publicly-displayed information for readers, authors and librarians here. Default content is included.
- Appearance: various components of the press appearance can be configured from this page, including header and footer elements, the press style and theme, and so on.
- Languages: additional languages, if available, can be configured here and may be made available throughout the user interface; for submissions; and for web forms. (Note that OMP 1.0b only includes the English locale. We plan on providing more locales in OMP 1.0 and onward. If you are interested in translating OMP, please let us know.)
- Plugins: all system plugins are listed on this page. Plugins are listed by type If a plugin is en/disable-able, you can do so by clicking on the checkbox to the right of it.
- Announcements: from this page you can configure announcement options and announcement types, and subsequently write announcements to be viewed from your press home page.
- Navigation: you may add links to be listed in your footer (separated by category, if you like); and also add Social Media links (which will appear in your press catalog and elsewhere).
Workflow Settings
Workflow Settings include all submission and publication configuration options, including those that relate to the initial submission process as well as the review, editing and production workflow process.
- Genres: These genres are used for file-naming purposes and are presented in a pull-down menu on uploading files. The genres designated ## allow the user to associate the file with either the whole book 99Z or a particular chapter by number (e.g., 02). Users will be able to choose from the genres that are specified here whenever they upload a file to the system. For example, if you include 'Chapter Manuscript', 'Book Manuscript', and 'Appendix' in your genres listing, authors will be able to designate uploaded submission files as chapters, an entire book manuscript, or an appendix. Many typical genres are included by default.
- Submission: On making a submission to the press, authors are first asked to check each item on the Submission Preparation Checklist as completed, before proceeding. The checklist also appears in the Author Guidelines, under About the Press. The list can be edited below, but all items on the list will require a checkmark before authors can proceed with their submission.
- Review: Many different review options can be configured here: Time to review; review reminders; whether press editors will be able to rate reviewers on a five-point scale; whether blind review is an option, and reviewer guidelines.
- Press Library: You may upload files to be used as templates and guides by editors, reviewers and authors, throughout the submission process.
- Production: You can add further information to this page to comply with the ONIX protocol.
- Emails: A system email signature and bounce address can be included on this page. Additionally, OMP includes a number of prepared emails that are sent out when various actions in the press are completed. (For example, the thank-you email that is sent to an author on completion of a submission.) These default emails may be edited from this page so that they better suit the press.
Distribution Settings
These pages include options to ensure that your press is found on the web, and options for users to purchase content from your catalog.
- Indexing: On this page you may configure indexing metadata that is used by search engines such as Google. This information may already have been filled out as part of the Press Creation wizard process, but you may edit it at any time.
- Payments: If you will be accepting payments for various things through your press -- for example, if you want to sell ebooks through your catalog -- then you must configure a payment method and the currency that you work with. Manual and PayPal methods are currently supported, and more may be added as plugins. Once this is configured, visitors to the site will be able to purchase and download digital materials.
Users & Roles
Registering and Administering Users
Site Administrators can manage users and roles Users and Roles menu item.
You can add new users, define new roles to be used in the system, and configure additional site access restrictions, from each of the tabbed pages available.
- New users can be added, and existing users edited and/or deleted, from the User Management tab;
- Role permissions and access rights can be customized from the Roles tab;
- Additional Site Access configuration steps, including access restrictions and registration options, can be configured from the Site Access Options tab.
Note: OMP and Roles
OMP includes a robust role management system, whereby Press Managers can control what kind of user can access a given workflow stage. A number of roles and associated permissions/access rights are already defined within OMP by default, but more can be made.
There are five levels of permissions/access that a role can have: Press Manager, Press Assistant, Series Editor, Reviewer, Author. Press Managers have access to everything in the press (all content and settings). Press Editors have access to all content within their series. Press Assistants have access to all monographs that they have been explicitly assigned by an editor. Reviewers can see and perform the reviews they have been assigned. Authors can see a limited amount of information about their own submissions. These are described in more detail below.
You can assign any number of different roles to each workflow stage. Assigning a role to a workflow stage means that you will be able to include one or more persons with that role during that stage of the submission. For example, by default, the Marketing Coordinator is included in the editorial stage, the layout editor in the production stage, and the author in all stages. You can add/remove any number of roles within these categories.
Press Managers can access the many Press Management pages, including content settings, press settings, and import/export tools and other plugins. The Press Manager(s) should configure the press via the Press Settings pages before any submissions are solicited. By default, the Press Editor, Production Editor, and Layout Editors all have "press manager" permissions.
Series Editors can access all of the submissions that are part of series to which they are assigned. They do not need to be explicitly assigned to the submission to have access, as long as the submission is in their series. By default, only the Series Editor role has this set of permissions.
Press Assistants can access only the workflow stage and monograph to which they have been assigned. They need to be explicitly assigned to the monograph at the appropriate stage to gain access. By default, most roles fall under this set of permissions.
Reviewers only have access to the pages that are used to perform a review. They only have access to a submission to which they have been asked to review. By default, there is an Internal Reviewer and an External Reviewer role with this set of permissions. They are intended to help organize two distinct sets of reviewers for the press.
Authors only have access to their own submissions and can see a limited set of information about the submission through the Author Dashboard. Authors can create new submissions and add files to the submission. By default, Author, Volume Editor and Translator have this set of permissions.
Using Roles
To give a user access to a given workflow stage, three things must be true: First, the role must be assigned to that stage of the workflow process through the Users & Roles -> Roles tab. Second, the user needs to be assigned that role through the Users & Roles -> Users tab. Lastly, the user must be assigned to the monograph stage through the Participants grid at the top of the workflow page.
Submission Workflow
Workflow overview
- Manuscripts are typically submitted by an author or volume editor, depending whether the submission is an individually-authored work or an edited volume, respectively. Submitting a manuscript is a four-step process.
- Once the submission is complete, a press or series editor takes responsibility for the submission and initiates the submission's journey through the publication workflow:
- An Internal Review may be conducted, followed by an External Review; each of these optional stages involves its respective set of reviewers.
- Following the review stages the manuscript (if accepted) enters the Editorial stage, where copyeditors are assigned and a fair copy is generated and checked by the author.
- Following the Editorial stage, the submission enters the Production stage. There, the entirety of the submission's information -- including submission placement, metadata, contributors, chapters, and so on -- can be reviewed and finalized. Different book formats (digital, hardback, paperback/softback) can be configured, and proofs can be uploaded for auditing and final editorial approval. Once the proofs are approved and the catalog information checked and approved for publishing, the book is published online.
Throughout the workflow, participants for each stage can be added and removed from the submission workflow via the Participants dropdown.
Finding and Starting Submissions
Users can access submissions assigned to them from their user Dashboard, which can be navigated to by clicking Dashboard in the navigation bar.
To submit a manuscript, make sure you are on the Tasks tab. Click on "Start a New Submission."
Any currently existing tasks that require your attention will of course be listed under the Tasks tab. To find your any previously submitted manuscripts and the status thereof, check the Submissions tab.
Workflow stages
The following roles are involved in the Submission workflow: Authors, Volume Editors, Press Editors, Series Editors, Translators, and Funding Coordinators.
Authors: Submitting and Managing Manuscripts
The submission process consists of four steps:
- Preparing the submission;
- Uploading the submission files;
- Providing catalog information;
- Next Steps.
To begin the manuscript submission process, go to your Dashboard; click on the Tasks tab; and click the "Start a New Submission" link. This will bring you to the first of four steps in the submission process.
Step 1: Prepare
During Step 1 you will be asked to establish what kind of manuscript you are submitting. You will also have to agree to a number of submission checklist items before proceeding.
You must first choose how you will be submitting your manuscript -- for example, as an individual Author, as a Volume Editor, as a Translator, etc. -- and whether the submission is an individually-authored work, or an edited volume with multiple chapter authors. If you are submitting an edited volume, you will be able to list chapters and assign contributors to those chapters at a later stage. Authored works can also have other contributors (additional authors, translators, etc.) who are assigned to the work as a whole rather than individual chapters.
You will then be able to choose the series and category (or categories) within which your manuscript falls. Choosing a Series classifies the work into a set of related publications; assigning Categories will help group publications by subject. Note: These options may vary depending on how the press has been configured, and will not necessarily be present.
Finally, you may have to agree to one or more checklist items (again, depending on how the press has been configured), and can provide a cover note to the Editor as necessary. Once this initial step has been accomplished, press Save and Continue. After you do so, the submission will be saved in your Dashboard, and you can leave and return to complete it as you see fit.
Step 2: Upload
All submission files can be uploaded during Step 2. You may upload your manuscript as a single submission file, or by uploading separate submission files for each individual manuscript section (e.g. your introduction; individual chapters; figures). You can choose each file's content type (e.g. chapter; manuscript; illustration; appendix) and specify a name for each file you upload (e.g. "Introduction"; "Chapter 1").
Once you have uploaded all relevant submission files, click Save and Continue.
Step 3: Catalog
Submission metadata must be supplied during Step 3. This information will be included in the press catalog once the book is published, and is a vital component to book publication, dissemination and indexing. This information can be reviewed at later stages of the publication process. You must provide a submission title, and may provide other information including a prefix, subtitle, and submission summary.
Further information can also be added to the submission: coverage information, submission keywords, source and rights information, and more.
You can also provide a list of contributors. The list of contributors associated with this submission may include other authors, individual chapter authors of an edited volume, volume editors, and/or translators. One contributor from the list may be assigned as the primary contact for editorial correspondence; this does not necessarily have to be the submitting author.
Once you have completed this step, click Finish Submission.
Step 4: Next Steps
The final step confirms that your submission has been received, and provides you with links to review your submission, create a new submission, or visit your Dashboard.
Editors: Managing Submissions
New submissions appear as unassigned tasks in the Dashboard.
To start working with a submission, click the submission's title. This will bring you to the submission's initial workflow page.
As you can see from the above screenshot, there are five separate workflow pages: Submission, Internal Review, External Review, Editorial, and Production. Each workflow stage has access (via the links near the top right corner) to the submission's Catalog tool (which will be covered later), to the Info tool, and to the Participants tool.
The Info tool allows you to view any notes added to the submission by various participants, notify various participants, and view the overall submission history, including a log of all submission actions and emails.
The Participants tool allows you to manage all participants associated with the submission: editors, authors, translators, and so on. A press or series editor must be assigned to a submission before the review or editing processes can be initiated; this will remove submissions from the Unassigned Submissions grid and move them to the assigned editor's My Assigned Submissions grid.
To assign an editor to the submission, click the Participants link to open the dropdown, click the Add Participant link, choose the relevant user group (in this case, either Series Editor or Press Editor), and choose the user from the list.
As an editor, you have four options for handling a submission: 1) Initiate an Internal Review (editor selects files for review within the press); 2) Initiate an External Review (editor selects files sent out for review); 3) Accept Submission (editor selects files for Editorial Stage); or 4) Decline Submission (editor archives submission). The author will be notified when you select the appropriate action.
All files provided by the author are available from the first Submission workflow page. You can upload additional documents that are pertinent to this submission under the Submission Documents section, and these will be available to all users assigned to the submission.
Internal review
Editors: Managing Review
As an editor you can initiate the internal review process for an assigned submission by choosing the Internal Review option on the monograph's Submission page.
You will be prompted to inspect and select the submission files the author provided for inclusion in the review process, and you can optionally upload new files or revise existing files. Once you have selected the appropriate files, you will be taken to the Internal Review tab.
At this stage, reviewers associated with the press go over the submission. As editor, you will assign reviewers and, once the reviews are back, assess the reviews and select the appropriate action: Request Revisions; Resubmit for Review; Send to External Review; Accept Submission; and Decline Submission. (See below for more details on these actions.)
Reviewers can be assigned to the submission by clicking Add Reviewer. You are able to choose from among a pool of already-enrolled reviewers; enroll new users as reviewers; add a personal message to the review request; set response and review due dates; and choose the review type (blind; double-blind; open).
Once reviewers are assigned, you can contact them and revise their due dates by clicking the icon next to their names.
You will be notified of completed reviews, and can access the reviews by clicking on the reviewer's name in the Reviewers section.
All author, reviewer and editor revision files are available from the Revisions section. Only documents included in this section will be available to be passed on to later workflow stages.
Once all reviews are in, you must make a decision on the submission. You may: 1) Request Revisions (in which case the author will be able to modify their submission information and/or upload revised submission files); 2) Resubmit for Review (in which case the submission will enter an entirely new internal review round); 3) Send to External Review (editor selects files to send to the external review process); 4) Accept for Submission (at which point the submission will enter the Editorial stage, bypassing External Review); or 5) Decline Submission (at which point the submission will be archived and the author notified).
These selections are made by clicking on one of the dark blue boxes at the top of the Internal Review page.
Reviewers: Undertaking Review
If you have been requested to review a submission, you will find the submission listed in your Dashboard's Tasks page, as well as in your Submissions page (in the My Assigned Submissions queue). To begin the four-step review process, click the submission's title.
Step 1: Request
The first step of the review process will provide you with the information you need to accept or decline the review request. You can review various submission details including title and description (and, depending on the review type, author information). Due dates suggested by the editor are also provided. You may click either Decline Review Request or Accept Review.
Step 2: Guidelines
All review guidelines and reference files will be available to you on Step 2 if you have accepted the request. Follow these instructions to complete your review in Step 3. You may return to this page whenever you need to during the review process.
Step 3: Download & Review
The review itself can be completed in Step 3. You can download the submission files for review; submit your review in the provided review form (required); and optionally upload files for the editor and/or author to consult, including revised versions of the original review file(s). Once you have completed your review, click the Submit Review button -- but note that once you have submitted your review you will not be able to modify any aspect of it.
Step 4: Next Steps
The final step is an acknowledgment that the press has received your review. Your review duties are over!
External review
Editors: Managing Review
The external review process can be initiated at the end of the internal review process by choosing the Send to External Review option at the top of the submission's Internal Review stage. You will be prompted to inspect and select the submission files from the internal review stage to be moved forward, and you can optionally upload new files (or revise existing files). Once you have selected the appropriate files, click Record Editorial Decision and you will be taken to the External Review stage.
At the External Review stage, reviewers external to the press go over the submission. As an editor, you will assign reviewers and give them access to review files and, once the reviews are back, assess the reviews and select the appropriate action: initiate a new review round, request revisions or resubmission, or accept or decline the submission (more details on these actions are below).
The External Review stage begins with the editor using Upload/Select files to identify the submission files for review.
Reviewers can be assigned to the submission by clicking the Add Reviewer link. You are able to choose from a pool of already-enrolled reviewers; enroll new users as reviewers; add a personal message to the review request; set response and review due dates; and choose the review type (blind, double-blind, or open). Once reviewers are assigned, you can contact them and revise their due dates by clicking the yellow icon next to their name.
Once the review has been completed, you will be notified of completed reviews. As editor, you can access the reviews by clicking on the reviewer's name in the Reviewers section.
All author, reviewer and editor revision files are available from the Revisions section. Only documents included in this section will be available to be moved to later workflow stages.
Once all reviews are in, you must make a decision on the submission. You may select: 1) Request Revisions, in which case the author will be able to modify their submission information and/or upload revised submission files; 2) Resubmit For Review, in which case the submission will enter an entirely new external review round; 3) Decline Submission, at which point the submission will be archived and the author notified; or 4) Accept Submission, at which point the submission will enter the Editorial stage. These selections are made by clicking on one of the dark blue boxes at the top of the External Review page.
Reviewers: Undertaking Review
If you have been requested to review a submission in OMP, you will find a submission listing in your Dashboard's Tasks page, as well as in your Submissions page, in the Assigned Submissions queue. To begin the four-step review process, click the submission's title.
Step 1: Request
The first step of the review process serves to provide you with the information you need to accept or decline the review request. You can review various submission details including title and description (and, depending on the review type, author information), and the important due dates are also provided. To pass on the review, choose the Decline Review Request option; to proceed with the review process, choose the Accept Review option.
Step 2: Guidelines
All review guidelines and reference files will be available to you on Step 2. Follow these instructions to complete your review in Step 3. You may return to this page whenever you need to during the review process.
Step 3: Download & Review
The review itself is completed in Step 3. You can download the submission files for review; submit your review in the provided review form (required); and optionally upload files for the editor and/or author to consult, including revised versions of the original review file(s). Once you have completed your review, click the Submit Review button -- but note that once you have submitted your review you will not be able to modify any aspect of it.
Step 4: Next Steps
The final step is simply an acknowledgement of review receipt. Your review duties are over!
The submission's Editorial stage is initiated after all review rounds are completed and the submission has been accepted. (To accept the submission, click Accept Submission at the top of the Internal/External Review page, select the revised copy to use in the editorial stage, and click Record Editorial Decision. You will then be taken to the Editorial stage).
The Editorial stage is reserved for copyediting, with the goal being to have a fair copy of the manuscript ready to move to production. Editors, copyeditors and authors are involved in this stage.
Editors and the Editorial Process
Several things happen in the Editorial Process: approved submissions are available in the Final Draft section, copyedited files may be uploaded to the Copyediting section, and authors and/or editors may be assigned to review the copyedited files and respond to queries. Final copyedited files may then be uploaded, at which point the submission can be sent to the Production stage.
All approved submission revisions from previous review stages are available in the Final Draft section. To copyedit a file, download the file from the Final Draft section and open it in the editor of your choice (for example, LibreOffice or Microsoft Office).
Once you have edited the file to your satisfaction, upload it to the Copyediting section, and optionally assign one or more users participating in the submission process (for example another editor, or the author) to audit the copyedited file. You may have to assign these users under the Participants dropdown before they will be available as auditors.
Multiple files may be sent for auditing, and an auditing due date can be set. You will be notified of completed audits, and can access the audits by clicking on the participant's name as it appears under the file. Finally, you will be able to sign off as copyeditor on the audited copyedit file by clicking the checkbox under the Copyeditor column.
Once all copyedited files have been reviewed, they may be uploaded to the Fair Copy section, at which point the submission (and any uploaded fair copies) can be sent to the Production stage by clicking the Send to Production link at the bottom of the page.
Auditors and the Editorial Process
If you have been asked to audit a file that is being copyedited, you will receive an email indicating this, and the task will also be listed on your Dashboard. To complete the auditing process, go to your Dashboard and click on the audit request. This will bring you to a page where you can download, review and respond to the copyedited file.
From this page you will be able to download any copyedited files that you have been asked to audit. Download and review the copyedited manuscript, and then click Upload a Response to respond to the auditing request and sign off on your audit. You will be able to add any notes you may have regarding the copyedited file, and even upload a revised or annotated copyedited file for the editor to review.
The assigned editor will receive a notification after you sign off on your auditing duties.
The submission's Production stage is generally initiated after the copyediting stage has been completed, although the Editor may choose to add information there as it becomes available earlier in the workflow process. The Production stage is used to create and manage publication formats (e.g. Paperback, Softcover, PDF, ePub), final publication-ready versions of the submission, and the catalog itself. This process is normally managed by a production editor, with the input and assistance of designers and proofreaders. Production Editors can be assigned using the Participants dropdown.
Production Editors and the Production Process
All approved and copyedited submission files from the editorial stage are available in the Production Ready section, and additional files can be added if need be.
The entirety of the submission's information -- including submission placement, metadata, contributors, chapters, and so on -- can be reviewed and edited in the Metadata section. By checking the approval checkbox at the bottom of the Metadata section the submission will be approved for the public catalog.
Different publication formats (audio, digital, hardback, paperback/softback) can be configured for the submission in the Publication Formats section.
Once you have added a format, a new section for that format will be made available to you, and you will be able to upload files there.
Auditors and the Production Process
If you have been asked to audit a publication-ready file, you will receive an email indicating this, and the task will also be listed on your Dashboard. To complete the auditing process, go to your Dashboard and click on the audit request. This will bring you to the submission's Production page.
From this page you will be able to download any final publication files that you have been asked to audit. Download and review the manuscript, and then click the checkbox under the Auditor column to sign off on your audit. You will be able to add any notes you may have regarding the file, and even upload a revised or annotated file for the editors to review. The assigned production editor will receive a notification after you sign off on your auditing duties.
Catalog Management
The press's public catalog -- the grouping of books available in various formats to the reading public from the press home page -- can be managed in a number of ways. OMP includes an overall Catalog Management interface which you can find from the Management -> Catalog navigation bar. You will also find a Catalog Entry tool available to you for each individual submission, on all of the submission's pages.
Books can be sorted by category and series, both in the Catalog Management interface, and also on the main home page once published. Authors may assign their original submissions to various categories and series, and editors can change these assignments at any time.
Managing Individual Catalog Entries
The Catalog Entry management tool is available from any submission workflow page. It consists of Monograph and Catalog tabs, as well as additional tabs for each of the publication formats (for eg., trade paperback, epub, pdf, etc.). The additional tabs will appear once you have added a publication format in the Publication Formats step of the Production stage.
Use the Monograph tab seen above to modify the book's metadata. This includes title, summary, contributors, coverage, and additional refinements like language, keywords, and supporting agencies. Here you will also be able to specify/modify the submission type (the submission type is usually one of 'image', 'text', or other multimedia types including 'software' or 'interactive').
Use the Catalog tab to modify the book's catalog information. This includes a book cover image, audience information, information on representatives (such as any agents or suppliers) who are not direct members of the press, and publication formats.
The individual publication format tabs can be used to configure the format itself and make it available on the public catalog. Much of this information can also be disseminated through ONIX extracts.
Publication Essentials
- For a manuscript to appear in the public catalog, you must approve the submission's metadata for public display. You can do this from two locations: 1) from the submission's Production stage page; 2) from the Catalog Entry tool's Submissions tab. In each place you will find all of the submission's placement, indexing and authorial information. There is also a checkbox available that asserts that "I acknowledge that the current metadata is accurate and approve it for display in the public catalog." Checking off this box and saving the form will publish the publication in the Public Catalog.
- For a book's publication formats (eg. audio, digital, hardback, softback/paperback) to appear in the public catalog listing, you must approve the format's information for public display. You can do this from the Catalog Entry tool's publication format tabs. Simply open the Catalog Entry tool; click on the relevant tab (eg. "Digital"); review the information listed on the resulting page; and check off the checkbox that says "This publication format is ready to be included in the public catalog" and click Save.
- In order for a digital edition of a book to be available for download, you must:
- create a digital format (eg. ebook) under the Production workflow stage;
- upload files to the format's proof reading step in the Production workflow stage;
- audit and approve all proofs;
- ensure that the submission and the format type are both marked as available in the catalog;
- if charging a fee for the digital edition, ensure that you have a payment method selected under Management -> Distribution Process (either paypal or manual payment);
- finally, ensure that you configure the Direct Sales Availability & Pricing section for that particular format in the Catalog Entry, where you can either set a particular format as Open Access, or optionally set a fee for purchase.
Managing the Catalog as a Whole
The overall Catalog Management interface is available to you from the navigation bar if you are registered as an editor: simply go to Management -> Catalog.
From this page you can view and manage your catalog's home page; view catalog entries by category and series; search for catalog entries; and add a new catalog entry from the submissions currently in the system.
Featured Publications
You can toggle whether a particular publication is "featured" by clicking on the star that appears where it is displayed. Featured submissions appear in a carousel at the top of the area where it was featured -- for example, if you feature two publications in a particular category listing, a carousel will appear when that category is browsed, with those publications displayed.
Catalog Management Display Options
You will find three options any page of the Catalog Management interface: Organize, List, and Grid.
- The Organize option can be used to arrange featured content by drag and drop -- simply click it, and you will be able to move items around by dragging them with your mouse. (You cannot organize non-featured content: this content is permanently sorted by date.) These changes are reflected in the publicly-viewable carousel.
- The List and Grid options provide different sorting mechanisms for the listed publications, but only within the Catalog Management interface itself: switching between list and grid view here will not change how books are displayed in the public catalog.


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All right, just going to lay down some ground rules here.
1. No flaming, no angry arguments. This forum is for fun and enjoyment, not to get pissed off. If you've got a problem with another forum member, take it someplace else.
2. While discussions of adult topics is permitted, no posting adult images. Links to adult sites are permitted as long as you place a warning stating that it is an adult website.
3. Spamming is right out, of course.
4. Since Lightbringer takes place in the same universe as Angel Armor, discussions of my books are considered on-topic and may be discussed here (like any of you have really bought the books, anyway. ^_~)
5. Philosophical discussions, even ones running contrary to Lightbringer, are perfectly free to discuss... just bear in mind some people might not agree with you on them. ^_~
6. Political discussions are also valid, but as in rule 5, bear in mind people may not hold the same opinion as you.
7. Since Lightbringer is also an examination of superheroes and comic books, feel free to post reflections/promotions/opinions on comic books, be they superhero or not.
Rules will be added/changed as I see fit. Have a good time!


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Although freedom of expression is protected by law and Hong Kong media remain lively in their criticism of the territory's government, political and economic pressures narrow the space for free expression. In 2011, several incidents raised concerns that the editorial independence of public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) was under threat, and Hong Kong authorities infringed on journalists' ability to report certain events.
Under Article 27 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong residents enjoy freedoms of speech, press, and publication, and these rights are generally upheld by the territory's independent courts. However, they risk being undermined by the power of the Chinese National People's Congress to make final interpretations of the Basic Law, Chinese surveillance in the territory, and the economic interests of media owners involved in the Chinese market. Hong Kong has no freedom of information law; an administrative code is intended to ensure open access to government information, but a January 2010 report by the ombudsman found "considerable misunderstanding" among some officials about their responsibilities with regard to transparency. Records were refused for no reason, or for inappropriate reasons, the ombudsman found, citing a lack of training among government staff. The report ignited calls by local journalists and watchdog groups to give freedom of information requirements the force of law.
Press freedom advocates continue to express concerns over the selective application of the Broadcasting Ordinance and the constitutionality of existing procedures for granting licenses to new media outlets. Decisions to grant or refuse licenses are made by the executive branch rather than an independent body. The prodemocracy station Citizens' Radio, whose broadcasting license application is still pending, has faced repeated raids and prosecutions for its broadcasts, but continued operating in 2011. In November, five lawmakers from Hong Kong's Democratic Party won an appeal against their conviction for speaking on the radio station. The defendants had each been fined HK$1,000 (US$129) in 2009 for participating in a 2008 Citizens' Radio forum. To date, only two broadcast companies, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Asia Television Limited (ATV), have licenses to compete in the free-to-air television market. The lack of competition has led to doubt about the diversity of news coverage, according to the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA). In 2011, the government announced that it would be issuing more free-to-air television licenses. By the end of the year it was evaluating at least three applications from prospective broadcasters, but no decision had been announced. In a case that raised questions about Chinese journalists' ability to work in the territory, the immigration department delayed an application for a work visa by outspoken mainland journalist Zhang Ping, who applied to work as editor of the online magazine Sun Affairs. Observers reported that while replies are typically obtained within four weeks, Zhang had not received a response five months after submitting the application.
Increasing media self-censorship poses a serious threat to free expression. In recent years, Beijing's influence over the news, publishing, and film industries has increased, prompting greater restraint on issues deemed sensitive by the Chinese central government. An April 2011 survey by the University of Hong Kong's Public Opinion Programme found that 54 percent of respondents believed that the media self-censored, the highest rate since Hong Kong's 1997 handover from the United Kingdom to China. Such self-censorship stems in part from the close relationship between media owners and the central government. Several owners sit on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an advisory body that has little real influence over government policy but is used by the ruling Communist Party to co-opt powerful members of society. Several media owners are also current or former members of the National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament, and many have significant business interests in mainland China.
In addition to self-censorship, Hong Kong media proactively reported certain information under the apparent influence of owners or managers during 2011. In an unusual incident in July, ATV erroneously announced the death of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin. A subsequent investigation found that the senior vice president of the company had pressured news managers to air the unverified report, despite their objections. In December, the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority fined the station a record HK$300,000 (US$39,000) for the false report. Many in Hong Kong speculated that ATV shareholder and Beijing-friendly businessman Wang Zheng was the source of the editorial interference, though he has denied any involvement and no conclusive evidence had been found by year's end. In another set of incidents, pro-Beijing media such as the newspaper Ta Kung Pao vigorously attacked two professors, Apple Daily owner Jimmy Lai, the local head of the Roman Catholic Church, and a talk-show host—all of whom are known for being critical of the Chinese central government, for supporting the Hong Kong prodemocracy camp, or for granting interviews to independent Chinese news outlets.
Violence against journalists is rare in Hong Kong. However, in 2011 the authorities appeared more heavy handed than usual in obstructing journalists' ability to freely report on important events. In July, at least 19 reporters were pepper-sprayed by the police when they found themselves caught between police and protesters demonstrating against the Hong Kong government. During the demonstration, the police also arrested citizen journalist David Cheung and Kiri Choy (also reported as Cai Wenwen), a 19-year-old intern for New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), a New York–based station founded by Falun Gong practitioners that broadcasts uncensored news into China. Although NTDTV faxed the police station proof of Choy's identity as a journalist, she was held overnight. Choy was initially charged with obstruction of a public place, but the charge was dropped in September after she filed a lawsuit for unlawful detention. In August, during a trip to the territory by Chinese vice premier Li Keqiang, authorities took unprecedented measures to limit reporters' ability to cover the visit. Journalists were kept far from Li and prevented from observing his public events. Several cameramen reported that uniformed or plainclothes police had stopped them from filming. Separately, after the Legislative Council moved to a new complex in 2011, the government issued new security rules that restricted journalists' ability to interact with lawmakers relative to conditions at the old building. The HKJA complained that journalists were barred from interviewing lawmakers in the corridors, that the rules stated "interviews should be related to the meetings held" (ostensibly restricting their scope), and that the new arrangement for photography and electronic media "deviate from press norm," with television feeds of the chamber provided by a production team in the employ of the Legislative Council Secretariat. In one instance in October, the official footage reportedly excluded an incident in which two lawmakers were removed from the chamber for unruly behavior. Also in October, security guards blocked photographers from taking photos of Chief Executive Donald Tsang and from approaching lawmakers at the new Legislative Council building.
Hong Kong journalists face restrictions and intimidation when covering events on the mainland, limiting their ability to provide national news to the local population. Mainland authorities require journalists to obtain temporary press cards from Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong prior to each reporting visit to the mainland, and to obtain the prior consent of interviewees. Even with accreditation, journalists from the territory have repeatedly been subjected to surveillance, threats, beatings, and occasional jailing when reporting on the mainland. In 2011, such incidents were especially common when journalists from Hong Kong were reporting on online calls for a Tunisian-style "Jasmine Revolution" in Beijing and Shanghai in February.
Hong Kong's media are outspoken. There is a high degree of professionalism, and political debate is vigorous. Dozens of daily newspapers are published in Chinese and English, and residents have access to satellite television and international radio broadcasts from services like the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 2011, controversy continued to surround RTHK, which operates as an independent department in the government and earns high public-approval ratings for its critical coverage of the authorities. After rejecting proposals to turn RTHK into an independent public broadcaster in 2009, the government issued a new charter that redefined its mission to include promotion of the official "one country, two systems" policy on Hong Kong's autonomy within China, among other changes. Some warned that this could threaten the station's editorial independence. Several incidents during the year added to these concerns. In September, a new director of broadcasting was appointed—Roy Tang Yun-kwong, previously the deputy secretary of the Labour and Welfare Bureau. His appointment marked the first time since the 1930s that a civil servant was "parachuted in" to lead RTHK; typically directors were appointed from within the station. In November, two popular current affairs talk-show hosts at RTHK were informed that their contracts would not be renewed; one had been with the station for 12 years and the other for 7 years. Publications known for their criticism of the central government, such as Apple Daily and the Epoch Times, have reported difficulties in attracting advertisers in recent years because of fears among private business owners that the association would damage their economic interests on the mainland.
There are no restrictions on internet access in Hong Kong. The region has one of the highest internet usage rates in Asia, with 75 percent of the population accessing the medium during 2011.


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James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux Klanners by night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where as late as 1963, although African-Americans made up over 57 percent of the total county population of 57,000, only 130 were registered voters. After graduating from Dunbar High School in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1937, Boggs took the first freight train north, bumming his way through the western part of the country, working in the hop fields of the state of Washington, cutting ice in Minnesota, and finally ending up in Detroit where he worked for the WPA until the Second World War gave him a chance to enter the Chrysler auto plant. In 1963, drawing on his own experience as a factory worker and radical militant, he wrote these pages.
Boggs offers both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle. He sees the growing trend toward automation, the decline of organized labor, the expansion of imperialism, and the deepening of racial strife as fundamentally rooted in the contradictions of U.S. capitalism. And he concludes that the only way forward is a new American revolution—one that, from his perspective writing in the 1960s, appeared to have already begun.
This new and expanded edition, now more relevant than ever, includes an introduction by Grace Lee Boggs as well as additional historical and personal commentary.
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