Design and Analysis of e-Journal Management Systems: SXC International Journal of Advanced Computing Sciences (SXC-IJACS)

The immense progress in Information Technology has accelerated its use in the domains of management. In the fields of academic publishing too, it has had its great influence. With the advent of the client-server based models of computing and the World Wide Web, the whole process merely reduces to typing out the document on the computer, a series of mouse clicks and receiving information via email. Not only does this save the cost of paper publications, it also saves the valuable time of both the publishers and the authors. By making the actual publication process quite convenient, easy and accessible, it helps in shifting the focus of the publishers more onto the quality and content of the journals themselves. Numerous publishing companies have either developed or acquired such IT systems for these tasks, notably [26, 27]. This paper makes a systematic case study of the general functions that such a system has to demonstrate, with SXC-IJACS as an example. A paper on the more technical aspects of the work [Bhattacharyya et. al., 2012] has been previously published at an international conference [19, 29].