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- 1. Starting a Journal The way to Go Balasubramanian Thiagarajan drtbalu's Otolaryngology online
- 2. The Decision ?? drtbalu's Otolaryngology online
- 3. What a Journal should not be drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online Open Journal Systems Annotum word press tool Modified content management systems like Joomla / Drupal etc
- 11. DOI number / Article ID drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online 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 drtbalu's Otolaryngology online
- 15. How the journal is going to be archived drtbalu's Otolaryngology online Eprint repository Lockss system Dspace repository