Electronic publishing

What are the desirable features of a journal website?What expertise is required to set up and maintain a

website?

Feature How? and other factors associated

Accessible

Current

FeaturesArchiveSearchableRetrievableAccessibleFormats – pdf & htmlUsage statsCurrentCopyright - Open access, licenseSpeedAestheticFunctionalWeb 2.0 functionality

Feature How? and other factors associated

Accessible

Current

Domain, host, costs, reliability, speed

Web editor

Web publishing workshop, Ghana, September 2009Objectives

To explore the costs, benefits and opportunities of electronic publishing.

To develop a workplan for the creation/modification and management of a journal website

To become familiar with basic web development, design, and managementuploading of files and maintaining links. common terminology and applications used in

electronic publishing (meta data, DOI, MeSH)To learn how to use xml for multiple applications

including submission for PubMedCentral and Medline.

Workshop overview 1-2 day joint session for editors and technical staff Followed by

Technical web training (3 days)Reviewer training ( 3 days)Opportunity for debriefing e.g. Scholarone

David – logistics & budget number of participants - 2 from each journal venue & travel

Scholarships Facilitators – EHP