Describe the problem you would like to solve
Our editors need a way to retrospectively insert the “Abstract” heading above the abstracts in our articles’ full-text HTML galleys as the absence of that title is affecting our acceptance on Scopus and other indexing services.
Who is asking for this feature?
Our Journal Editors
Describe the solution you’d like
For future articles it’s relatively straightforward: add an Abstract heading to the full text and/or make changes to the abstract structure. The challenge is that for the journal to be accepted of indexing, we would need to apply this change to our back issues. That means retrospective changes to a large number of html and PDF pages. (>3000 articles)
One possible solution would be for the HTML full-text galleys to be generated from an underlying template, and if changes are made to the template then the galley files can be regenerated thereby “fixing” all previous full-text galleys.
I’m unsure if this solution would be workable but am open to ideas and suggestions on how to streamline this process.
Additional information
We recently applied to have our journal indexed in Scopus, one of the major journal article databases, but it was rejected because we didn’t meet the requirement for all articles to have an abstract. In fact, all our articles do have abstracts, but on our full text versions, the word ‘Abstract’ does not appear above the abstract, and because of the way our abstracts are structured and written, it’s not obvious that they are an abstract.
Example:
Main page, including ‘Abstract’ heading: https://veterinaryevidence.org/index.php/ve/article/view/676
Full text html: https://veterinaryevidence.org/index.php/ve/article/download/676/973?inline=1
Full text PDF: https://veterinaryevidence.org/index.php/ve/article/download/676/974?inline=1
Our Journal: OJS 3.3.0.13