1. Online Editorial Management On-line Management of Scholarly Journals Mahmoud Saghaei

2. Editorial Work Flow Management On-line Management Topics Technologies Roles Files Sections Reading Tools Submissions Management Policies Review Forms Masthead Emails Stats & Reports Journal Details Look & Feel

3. Editorial Work Flow Management Technologies Web site standards Semantic Web semantics of information and services on the web is defined and placed alongside of data Web (computer) understandable Semantic Publishing information published on the web is accompanied with metadata describing the published information

4. Editorial Work Flow Management Basic Processes

5. Editorial Work Flow Management Roles Journal Managers Editors (and section editors) Reviewers Authors Copy Editors Layout Editors Proof Readers Readers

6. Editorial Work Flow Management Journal Files Private Strict version management Submission: Original, Review, Reviewers, Editor, Copy, Layout, Proof Published, Supplementary No unauthorized access to private files Should not be web addressable http://www.myjournal.net/files/2381/2381-4235.doc

7. Editorial Work Flow Management Journal Sections (Types of Article) Section Title Section Policy Will be peer reviewed? Specific Review Form(s) Require Abstract? (if yes, how many words? Structured?) Will be included in indexing? Everybody may submit as? Everybody may Comment on? Will appear in TOC? Author name in TOC? Will appear in About pages Need section editor? (if yes who is SE?) Order in sections

8. Editorial Work Flow Management Reading Tools Links to rich context of related materials on web Searching based on the authors' keywords Tools About the author, How to cite item, Supplementary files, Notify a colleague, Email the author, Find References, Citations, History, Comments, Author's work, Related studies, etc. Databases for each tools GS, PM, PMC, BMP, CDC, OAIster

9. Editorial Work Flow Management Submissions Author Guidelines Submission Checklist Copyright Notice Competing Interests Authors Indexing

10. Editorial Work Flow Management Management Access Journal Contents: Open, Subscription, Delayed Open, Need Registration Site Access: Open, Registration User Registration: If enabled which roles Logging: All actions, Emails only Publication Schedule Content Identification

11. Editorial Work Flow Management Policies Focus and Scope Peer Review Review Guidelines Review Process Review Options Privacy of Informations Correspondence Journal Archiving

12. Editorial Work Flow Management Peer Review Options Anonymity and Transparency Interaction with Reviewers Quality of Review Open Peer Commentary

13. Editorial Work Flow Management Anonymity and Transparency Reviewers know the authors' identities Always, Optional, Never Who protect authors' identity Author, Editorial Staff, Mixed Authors know the reviewers' identities Always, Optional, Never Reviewers' name published alongside the accepted articles Always, If reviewer agree, Never

14. Editorial Work Flow Management Anonymity and Transparency Edition of reviews Always, if offending, if permitted, never Reviews published alongside accepted articles Always, if reviewer agree, never Reviewers know each other Immediately, those completed the review, never

15. Editorial Work Flow Management Anonymity and Transparency Reviewers know each others' review Immediately after each review, after completion, if requested, never Reviewers will be informed of editorial decision Yes, those responded, if requested, never

16. Editorial Work Flow Management Interaction with Reviewers Authors contact the reviewers Always, if reviewer agree, never Author / reviewer correspondence may affect editorial decision Yes, no Who reviews the author revision Editor Reviewers Mixed

17. Editorial Work Flow Management Interaction with Reviewers Authors are advised to submit to another journal(s) Yes, but no mention of a particular journal One or more journals recommended Never Passing the reviews to other journals Yes, submitting to review DBs, within the publishing group, never

18. Editorial Work Flow Management Quality of Reviews Review guidelines General hint, detailed instructions, nothing Formal evaluation of reviews All, samples, none Who evaluate the reviews? Editors, other reviewers, authors, other Review aspects evaluated Language, fairness, helpful to editor, to author, consensus with other reviews, timeliness

19. Editorial Work Flow Management Quality of Reviews Passing evaluation results to reviewers Always, if interested, never Review acknowledgement Honorarium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorarium Regular publication of names Publishing names with good evaluation Free print copies, on-line access, web services Good reviewers appointed to editorial board

20. Editorial Work Flow Management Elements in Review Guideline Methodology Literature review Impact Originality Comprehensiveness Overall impression Within the scope Appropriateness for readers Explicit recommendation as to reject / accept/ etc

21. Editorial Work Flow Management Open Peer Commentary Public comments On manuscripts (for transparent submission systems), on articles, on both, none Commentary open to All readers, selected groups Commenter identity Identified, anonymous, optional

22. Editorial Work Flow Management Open Peer Commentary Authors' response Obligatory, Possible Moderation of commentaries Always, only new user, after immediate release, no Change of articles by authors Yes, adding a new version alongside the old, never

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