What is it about?
When launcing and starting a new journal the editor needs to be aware of best practices in publishing, policies and standards that a new journal needs to consider. This will ensure the journal meets scholarly quaility standards as well as requirements for indexing
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Why is it important?
It is important because it provides a check list for editors starting or launching a new journal
Perspectives
I reaslised the need for such a publication when I was involved in publishing our institutional journals online using Online Journal Systems (OJS). It was evident that a checklist that brings together the policies and standards that were scattred across different sources is a useful tool for editorial teams that have no prior experience or training in journal publishing
Miriam Wanjiku Ndungu
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Scholarly journal publishing standards, policies and guidelines, Learned Publishing, July 2021, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/leap.1410.
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