Describe the problem you would like to solve issue is published, not when a new article is published inside an already‑open issue. This means readers and authors cannot receive automatic alerts for newly published articles, and editors must rely on manual workarounds such as creating announcements or external mailing lists.
Describe the solution you’d like
Who is asking for this feature?
Additional information
Hi @nathan.grice ,
This has already been identified, and it looks as though it will be addressed in OJS 3.6:
opened 02:53PM - 15 Feb 19 UTC
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Enhancement:2:Moderate
**Describe the problem you would like to solve**
Journals that publish each arti… cle individually, instead of all together in a journal, have no way to notify readers when a new article is published.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Add an email notification that is sent when a new article is published.
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**Who is asking for this feature?**
Journals that publish as-you-go or on a continuous basis.
**Additional information**
Further work is needed to determine when a journal should use the issue published notification and when they should use the new article published notification. If both are active and a journal publishes an issue, a reader may receive a dozen emails all at once. Aside from being annoying, this is likely to trigger spam/malicious email protections when delivered.
An [email template](https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/4504#issuecomment-963701360) has been drafted.
The original issue description is below. Note that the Notify Users functionality was implemented in 3.3:
> In OJS 3, editors can choose to send a "New Issue" notification to readers on the publication of an issue, but there isn't a similar option when an article has been published against an already-published issue, ie. for continuous publication workflows. I could see this being developed in one of two ways:
>
> 1) add a "Send notification email to all registered users" option to the article Schedule for Publication page, active and visible only if the selected issue is already published. This should use a unique "New Article Published" email template. It should also have an accompanying user profile notification management option.
>
> 2) re-add the more general Notify Users functionality. This has been discussed before - see #4017, and also multiple comments in #2561.
**Related Forum Post** https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/notification-of-new-article-published/51434
-Roger