3. What a Journal should not be
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Should not be a basket where all sorts of articles are
published. It should be highly topical and confirm to
American Library of congress subject classification
Should not be a closed one
Should not be a Red Journal
A journal without clear cut copyright, metadata
harvesting and archiving policy
4. Focus of the Journal
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This is what all indexing services look at
Focus should ideally be a narrow subject matter
The subject should be in confirmation with guidelines
laid down by American Library congress
With this in mind – Decide how many journals you
would like to host
5. Aims & scope of the journal
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This should be decided next
Aim and scope should be as narrow and focused as
possible
A clear cut decision on the number of issues to be
published in a year should be specified
Supplemental issues if planned should also be
stated here
Scope for book reviews should be specified
6. Editorial Board
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Should be compact
Should be headed by a Chief Editor and four
Associate Editors
Names of the Editorial Board along with their contact
details should be published prominently in the
journal site
Role of the Editorial board should be clearly and
explicitly decided
Number of Editorial Board meetings that should be
conducted should be specified. Online meeting is
ideal
7. Training for Editorial Board Members
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Members who constitute the Board of Editors should
be trained on article triaging, article forwarding,
article reviewing, article type setting, Plagiarism
check etc.
They should also be trained to manage online
workflow of the journal articles
Training should include hands on training of the
selected journal software
8. Reviewer - Selection
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Selection process of reviewers should be
transparent
Submitting authors can suggest reviewers
Reviewer should be a published author
He / She should have either of the following digital
identification – Researcher ID / ORCID / Research
Gate Member
Design of review form
Conducting orientation program for reviewers /
potential reviewers
9. The Ideal Journal software
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Should have easy online registration and submission
process
Should have a credible and easy work flow algorithm
Open source
Comply with OAI initiative
Should provide metadata for harvesting by search
engines
Should have facility for counting article download
numbers
Should have facility for XML conversion of published
articles and issues
10. Free Journal Software
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Open Journal Systems
Annotum word press
tool
Modified content
management systems
like Joomla / Drupal etc
11. DOI number / Article ID
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Digital ID for published articles is a must. (Crossref)
DOI numbering system does the job. It is a paid
service
ARK numbering is a free alternative. Need to
maintain ARK name resolving server
Without this number your article will be orphaned
12. ISSN Number
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Application can be submitted only after publishing
the First issue
Separate application need to be submitted for online
/ Print versions of the journal
ISSN number allotment is free
Before applying for ISSN number decision on the
number of issues to be released per year should be
clearly decided
Without this number indexing services wont index
the journal
13. Decisions to be made
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Is the journal going to be open to all or only to faculty
and students of the university
Quality will be good if it is open to all
Author identification – Digital ID’s
Overall supervision of the functioning of the journal –
Constitution of a Board of chief editors and soft ware
system administrator
14. A Green journal should look like this
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15. How the journal is going to be archived
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Eprint repository
Lockss system
Dspace repository