Running an electronic journal

Summary

This document describes some of the requirements for electronic journals and explains the technology needed to edit and publish them. Editing in particular receives close attention: while the technology relieves the publisher of many of the chores of typesetting and formatting in multiple environments, the exercise of editorial control remains a task only a human can do.

The Electronic Publishing Unit provides a platform for journals (using the Cocoon framework) which enables the edited articles to be uploaded for immediate publication. A working example is available online (Schewe & Even, 2007).

Scenario

Journal for Drama and Theatre in Foreign and Second Language Education (http://research.ucc.ie/scenario/)

Irish Journal of Public Policy (IJPP)

A peer-reviewed journal for politics, political science, government, public policy and public administration (http://research.ucc.ie/ijpp/)

The Boolean

Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork (http://research.ucc.ie/boolean/)

Aigne

The online postgraduate journal of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (http://research.ucc.ie/aigne/)

The eJournal system was recently presented at the Online Education @ UCC symposium (paper, slides).

October 2011

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