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Hi,
We are using OJS for the management of the publication workflow of our journal. So far, our journal has been accepting submissions without categorizing them. Now, we’re investigating how we could distinguish between “research articles” and “project/tool notes”. From what I read in the documentation, this should be done with “sections” in OJS. So far, so good. Only, so far, we’ve been (mis?)using sections to define journal issues, making it possible to:
group articles for one issue in a de…
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Hi @klausru ,
Currently that’s something you’ll have to do manually – i.e. the Editor in Chief (or equivalent) would need to assign the issue’s Section Editors and/or Editors to particular submissions that they intended for publication in the issue. This is an approach we may automate in the future, but haven’t prioritized yet.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
I think the current workaround is to create a dedicated section for the special issues, but there seems to be cause to consider issue-level editor assignments. If this were available, would you still need this “journal cloning” functionality?