UW Hosted Scholarly Journals Outage Resolved

Tue. Jul. 15, 2025

Reading access restored

The Library has restored reading access to all of the University of Winnipeg's open-access journals, after experiencing an outage in its Open Journal Systems (OJS) software platform earlier this year. 

Following the outage, the Library investigated the root causes and began restoring the journals with improved security and data integrity provisions. Restoring service required balancing user needs with the integrity and security of the system and the data contained in all of the journals on our Open Journal System server.  Reading access to the hosted journals was restored in June, and we are currently working on re-enabling user accounts.

We greatly value the University of Winnipeg's OJS community of journal managers, editors, authors, reviewers, and readers, and the important scholarship we sustain. We understand the impact this outage has had on your work. Although the Library has done everything it could to restore all the hosted journals as safely and quickly as possible, we recognize that this process took time and appreciate your patience and understanding.

For any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact Brianne Selman, Scholarly Communications Librarian, or Sam Popowich, Digital Infrastructure Librarian.