Welcome to Ambra
Welcome to the Ambra journal management and publishing system! Ambra is a high-volume, efficient and economical system for the publication of research articles in all
areas of science.
What is Ambra?
Ambra is an innovative Open Source platform for publishing Open Access research articles. It provides features for post-publication annotation and discussion that allows for a "living" document around which further scientific discoveries can be made. Ambra uses a semantic repository which provides a way to store all content as RDF triples. Ambra is freely available and allows scholarly publishers, societies, universities, or research communities to publish Open Access journals economically and efficiently. The platform is in active development by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
How do I get started?
The best place to start learning about Ambra is through the Ambra Wiki. The Ambra Wiki is undergoing a lot of change, so please be patient while we put some order to the chaos.
Features
- Support for multiple journals on a single platform.
- Support for publishing articles with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Publishing Tag Set.
- Community features such as threaded discussions, ratings and user profiles.
- In-line annotations (select text in an article and add a note to it).
- TrackBack support.
You can see many of the features in action at PLoS ONE.
Architecture Features
- Ambra is written in Java. It uses Spring, Struts, and the FreeMarker templating system to construct HTML which is served by Tomcat. It uses the Dojo JavaScript toolkit to create an advanced user interface.
- The Fedora Digital Repository is used to store digital objects. Fedora is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and their relationships among the digital objects.
- All content is parsed and metadata is stored as triples in the Mulgara semantic repository. Mulgara is a scalable Resource Description Framework (RDF) database for the storage and retrieval of metadata.
View the complete features list.
Release Notes
Ambra 1.1
Released July 22, 2010
- Support for NLM DTD 2.3 and new XSL stylesheets. The single XSL stylesheet has been split into two stylesheets: a generic XSL stylesheet to handle NLM DTD 2.3 and an XSL stylesheet specifically for Ambra.
- Support for HTML iframes for advertising blocks.
- Caching of CrossRef search results on the "Find this Article Online" page.
- Updates to the copyright information.
- Bug fixes:
- Fix to author and editor search facet sorting.
View all release notes.