Zdravkovski Zoran
Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, R. Macedonia.
Pril (Makedon Akad Nauk Umet Odd Med Nauki). 2014;35(3):51-5.
The development and availability of personal computers and software as well as printing techniques in the last twenty years have made a profound change in the publication of scientific journals. Additionally, the Internet in the last decade has revolutionized the publication process to the point of changing the basic paradigm of printed journals. The Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in its 40-year history has adopted and adapted to all these transformations. In order to keep up with the inevitable changes, as editor-in-chief I felt my responsibility was to introduce an electronic editorial managing of the journal. The choice was between commercial and open source platforms, and because of the limited funding of the journal we chose the latter. We decided on Open Journal Systems, which provided online submission and management of all content, had flexible configuration--requirements, sections, review process, etc., had options for comprehensive indexing, offered various reading tools, had email notification and commenting ability for readers, had an option for thesis abstracts and was installed locally. However, since there is limited support it requires a moderate computer knowledge/skills and effort in order to set up. Overall, it is an excellent editorial platform and a convenient solution for journals with a low budget or journals that do not want to spend their resources on commercial platforms or simply support the idea of open source software.
在过去二十年中，个人电脑、软件的发展及可用性以及打印技术给科学期刊的出版带来了深刻变革。此外，过去十年里互联网彻底改变了出版流程，甚至改变了纸质期刊的基本范式。《马其顿化学与化学工程杂志》在其40年的历史中采用并适应了所有这些变革。为了跟上这些不可避免的变化，作为主编，我觉得自己有责任引入该期刊的电子编辑管理。选择在商业平台和开源平台之间进行，由于该期刊资金有限，我们选择了后者。我们决定采用开放期刊系统，它能提供所有内容的在线提交和管理，配置灵活——包括要求、板块、评审流程等，有全面索引的选项，提供各种阅读工具，具备读者电子邮件通知和评论功能，有论文摘要选项且可本地安装。然而，由于支持有限，设置它需要一定的计算机知识/技能和精力。总体而言，它是一个出色的编辑平台，对于预算低的期刊、不想在商业平台上耗费资源的期刊或者仅仅支持开源软件理念的期刊来说，是一个便捷的解决方案。
