Upcoming issues of our journal will have multiple themes in each issue. For example, the next issue will include “open/unthemed” research, literary work, and commentary. It will also include a themed section on Climate, that includes research, literary work, and commentary. This will often be the case going forward as we include unthemed research with themed calls for papers in a single issue.
However, it looks like this may present a problem for indexing because, ideally, ALL research would be included under one section heading in OJS, all literary work under another section heading etc.
What we need to do is something like this issue where they are several themes in the issue.
It would look like the layout in the attached screenshot.
I read this thread from 2022 but hoped that maybe something has changed since.
Hi @Lolekbolek!
I don’t think this has changed much since the post you’ve referenced. And, so far as I can there are no plans to develop the use of subsections. But, one of the way that people are doing something similar is the use of Categories. I discussed this with another user more recently, here: Creation of sections and subsections
-Roger
PKP Team
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Analyzing the problem you described, I tried to simulate a scenario with possible subcategories. The system currently only allows going down one level of subcategory. I created a ‘Mathematics’ category and two subcategories: ‘Pure Mathematics’ and ‘Applied Mathematics’. When I tried to go one level deeper by creating the subcategory ‘Computational Mathematics’, the ‘Applied Mathematics’ category stopped being a subcategory and became a supercategory, meaning it was placed at the same level as ‘Mathematics’.
Solution 1: would be to propose the creation of sub-levels, as categories can be created recursively and classifying these levels wouldn’t be too difficult. The risk of this option is that it may impact how Submissions and actions related to this module currently work.
Solution 2: would be the creation of Tags. A table could be created to store the Tags and another to manage the relationship between Tags and Categories. In this case, you would retrieve the information from both tables in the Theme and handle the data and its presentation in the template as needed.
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