What is JournTech?

Main parts

The whole journey of a publication is recorded in JournTech. The author submits, the editor picks reviewers, the publishing board decides, the production team prepares the work and the publication goes into the open-access catalogue. These are the main parts of the platform.

Submission and peer review

Authors submit online, with ethics and copyright declarations as part of the submission. Review is double-anonymous. Invitations, reminders and decision rounds run in the system.

Production

Typesetting, cover and imprint steps are tracked on the publishing coordinator's task list.

ISBN and legal deposit

An ISBN request goes to the publishing board for approval. The authorised person applies with their own e-Devlet login. A browser extension that fills in the Ministry's form from the approved request is in pilot. After printing, the 15-day legal deposit deadline and the bandrol are tracked.

Journals

A journal can be run in JournTech, or it can stay on DergiPark and be synced to the institution's site. The TR Dizin readiness checklist and the ODİS-ready export are part of this too.

Open-access catalogue

Books, articles and proceedings papers are published with Turkish and English pages, their licences and citation formats.

Visibility

DOIs are registered with Crossref together with reference lists. Google Scholar tags, OAI-PMH records and the sitemap are produced automatically. Authors' ORCID iDs and institutions' ROR IDs are added to the records.

Institutional archive

Theses in the institution's open repository are imported over OAI-PMH and synced every day. The original record stays in the repository.

Administration and trust

There are eleven built-in roles and fine-grained permissions. Every important action is written to an audit log. Staff can sign in with their institutional account, and two-step verification can be required for privileged roles. Privacy notices and erasure requests are built in.

The units it serves

JournTech gives every unit that takes part in publishing its own screens. Presses and publishing committees run the book process in it. Journal editors follow peer review and indexing readiness. Libraries manage the catalogue and harvesting. IT departments manage users, permissions and the installation.

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Use and installation

JournTech runs in the browser; nothing is installed on users' computers. The public site and the admin panel work in Turkish and English.

Each institution gets its own installation with its domain, logo and colours. Hosting and backup locations are set in the contract with the institution.

Standards and services it supports

JournTech publishes in a form that indexes, search engines and harvesters can read. It works with the following standards and services.

Crossref

DOIs are registered for articles, issues, books, chapters and proceedings papers. Articles are sent with their reference lists.

Google Scholar

Every publication page carries the citation_* tags and the PDF link that Google Scholar reads.

OAI-PMH

Records are offered to harvesters as oai_dc. Theses and journals on DergiPark are imported over OAI-PMH too.

ORCID and ROR

Authors are identified by ORCID iDs and institutions by ROR IDs. Users can sign in with ORCID.

Schema.org and sitemaps

Pages carry structured data, canonical links and a sitemap for search engines.

TR Dizin and ODİS

Journals get a criterion-by-criterion readiness checklist and an export that prepares the files to upload to ODİS.

OpenID Connect

If the institution's identity provider supports it, staff sign in with their institutional account.

WCAG 2.2 AA

The interface is designed to this accessibility level and is checked automatically on every change.

Creative Commons

Open-access publications are published with their licences.

Name and developer

The product's name is one word, written JournTech. Its website is journ.tech. JournTech is developed, installed and supported by HB Tech. It is not related to other products or companies with similar names.

HB Tech

Live demo

The live demo shows the public site with sample content. The release notes list what each version added. For a presentation tailored to your institution, write to info@hbtech.com.tr.

Live demoRelease notes