1. How do I start a conference with OCS?
2. Where can I find technical support, post bugs, and suggest improvements in using OCS?
3. How would I go about translating OCS in another language?
4. How can I get word out on the web about my conference proceedings?
5. How can the conference present a record the history of who served on its editorial team?
6. How can I let readers sign up as reviewers for the conference?
7. How can I find additional reviewers for a submission to the conference beyond the current list of available reviewers?
8. What are the different ways in which a conference proceedings might be able to publish in an open access format, making the proceedings' contents free to readers?

1. Download OCS and install the software, following its installation script, on a web server that meets the software's requirements.
2. Use the administration username and password generated in the installation of OCS to log in.
3. Once logged in as an Administrator, create a conference website by going to the Site Administrator's User Home, clicking on Hosted Conferences, and creating a new hosted conference.
4. You will be the first Conference Manager for the resulting conference website. Set up the web site by completing the six Website Management steps, found on the Conference Site Management page under General Management.
5. Create a new scheduled conference by visiting the Hosted Conferences page, also under General Management.
6. When the new scheduled conference is created you will have a number of options that will be displayed under the scheduled conference name. Click the Setup link and fill out the three-step setup process, and at a minimum visit the Conference Timeline page to edit the conference timeline for registering, submitting and publishing conference material. You will now have a conference that will be ready to take registrations and presentation submissions.
7. Consult OCS in an Hour for more information on getting started with OCS.

The Public Knowledge Project operates a Support Forum with well over a thousand exchanges where answers can be searched for and questions can be posted. For example, error messages can be searched, leading to proposed solutions for known issues. Bug reports should be submitted through PKP's Bugzilla.

Instructions are provided in the docs/README file which is included in the OCS download. The PKP maintains a page on translating OCS, and keeps a list of languages that OCS has been translated into. You can also enquire for help on the PKP Support Forum and by email.

Your conference proceedings will start showing up in Google and the other major search engines, but you can take other steps as well. Be sure to register the conference with the PKP Harvester in Step 6 - Conference Indexing under Website Management, which will lead to your conference being indexed in Open Archives Initiative indexes, including the PKP Harvester and OAIster. If your conference proceedings is open access, speak to your university librarian about how your proceedings can be listed among the library's electronic proceedings and how you can contact a number of other research libraries through a serials librarian listserv. See whether you can use the web site or listserv of the relevant professional associations to announce a "call for papers" or the launch of the conference.

The Conference Manager can enter this information by clicking the Organizing Team link under Current Conferences, from the Conference Site Management page. Alternatively, in step 1.7 under Website Management, the Conference Manager can create a "History of the Editorial Team" page as a new item in About the Conference. On such a page, you can record the name, editorial title and years served for members of the editorial team.

On the Log In page, those who haven't registered are encouraged to create an account with a scheduled conference. on the Account page one may create account as Reviewers, as well as Readers and/or Authors. The Reviewers will then appear among the list the Track Director can select and invite to review submissions. In Website Management Setup step 2.3, the Conference Manager can add a note to "For Readers" about the conference's interest in having readers serve as Reviewers for the conference. By the same token, the conference can encourage users to enroll as Readers for purposes of notification and to be able to identify how many regular readers there are.

There are a number of techniques to use. Once a potential reviewer is identified by name, then their email and affiliation can be identified using a further search on the name.

1. Use the bibliography of the paper to be reviewed to identify suitable people, and then use their full name in Google to find their institution and then their email address.
2. Use Boolean searches in Google based on the author's keywords (e.g., postcolonialism + literature + "South Africa") to identify related online materials and people working in the same area.
3. Based on how the author has identified the subject of the paper (see Metadata in the submission's Summary), send out queries to colleagues for the names of colleagues with expertise in the identified areas.
4. Visit other online proceedings in this field to identify authors who could serve as reviewers for a specific paper in need of a reviewer.

You might consult John Willinsky's "The Nine Flavours of Open Access Scholarly Publishing" in the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. As well, the Soros Foundation has prepared a Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies which is "a guide meant to help scholarly societies — and small publishers — assess the options available to them for the future of their journal publishing programmes." SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, also provides a number of resources related to open access publishing.