Hello OJS users and PKP Team,
As an enthusiast of all the PKP Suite I have discussed previously with John and his Crew during the PKP Conference and thought it might be worth while discussing the Journal issues here too, to record them.
I'm sorry for cross-posting, but no one apparently read my post in the OJS Discussion forum.
Although I've brought the notion of a Journal Metadata Set before, there is, in my humble opinion, an urgent need to keep records of the historical information of the journal, meaning:
[*]General Editors, Editors, and Editorial Team change with time
[*]Editorial Boards and Review Boards change over time
[*]Issue reviewers change and need to be displayed publicly, since they don't get paid and use these records for many purposes (available in Stats & Reports, but if the user loses the role, the records are lost)
[*]Journal information may/will change over time, such as the publication format (annual, monthly, quarterly, etc)
So, I would consider it a "commercial" advantage if the PKP Suite somehow managed to keep this data stored and publicly available, at least for historical reasons. I believe it may be important for research purposes. Many scholars research the evolution of science, which is recorded mostly in journals as articles. The journal structure is fundamental for this type of statistical data.
OJS SHOULD (or MUST) have a way to keep these records and display them, usually by ISSUE, bringing the information automatically. This may change the structure of the About section of OJS, being displayed by section, instead of having everything in one single page
The About section shows some of the information by ISSUE, which may be easier to implement.
PKP Harvester SHOULD import this data, probably as a SET.
Any comments or ideas?