Publishing scientific journals in the digital age: opportunities for small scholarly journals.
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Scientific publishing is rapidly developing from print-only to digital journals and extensive use of social media. This essay presents our experience in developing a small and scholarly journal from the so-called scientific semi-periphery and using the advantages of digital publishing to increase the visibility of the journal in international indexing and citation databases, and ensure greater visibility in the global scientific community. An editor of a scientific journal does not need to master all details of different digital publishing tools, but needs to follow the developments so that they can be best implemented in the journal.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Prilozi
دوره 35 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014