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    • New Applicants Questionnaire

    Thank you for expressing interest in this Diamond Open Access journal publishing initiative. To begin this journey we need to know about your journal experience, its history in brief and the editorial and publishing structure you have or plan to build to support your journal’s work.

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    Name
    Does the Journal have an ISSN number?
    Will you supply, an ISSN number or do you wish PJ provides it for you?
    Will you provide DOIs for all articles?
    Please detail the aims and scope of your journal, or provide link to a relevant section of journal website.

    Sponsors/funders

    Please provide details of institutional sponsor/s and/or funders.

    Website for the Journal

    Please provide links to journal home page and other hosting/mirror sites.
    Please outline your experience in Journal publishing?

    Are there comparable journals in your field with which you directly compete?

    Have you experience of indexing the Journal in DOAJ or other directories and indexes? Please provide details.
    In which other databases, directories, or indexing services is your journal currently listed or do you plan to seek inclusion (e.g., Scopus, Web of Science, African Journals Online, Google Scholar)?
    How do you fund the journal? Are editors paid? What other costs do you have? Do you receive institutional or donor funding? How sustainable is this funding model?
    Have you experience of Journal publishing in Open Access? If so, please elaborate.
    Under what licence do you publish your articles (e.g., Creative Commons CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, or other)? If you don’t currently use a specific licence, are you open to adopting a Creative Commons licence?
    Do you have an Editorial Board and an Advisory Board or other Boards to assist you? On a separate sheet please let us have the names of all your Board members and their University association if any, and please detail their role and involvement.
    If none, tell how long before you can prepare this key element of infrastructure.
    Please provide details of your peer review system you plan to use?
    Do you have plans to market and promote your journal?
    Are you currently part of any other publishing initiatives or programmes to increase the profile and impact of your journal?
    Have you experience of a digital submission system (e.g. OJS)? If so, please provide details.
    Do you do your own copy-editing and typesetting?
    Are you able to upload XML files of your journal?
    Do you accept articles in languages other than English.
    Do you have a preference for US/US English?
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