Multi-Website Single-Repository Architecture for E-Journal Web Platform

Abstract

There has been an increased interest of the scientific community in periodic electronic journals, which are included in indexing systems like Web of Science and Scopus. The idea for creating a structure of the platform for periodic electronic publications is to aid the application for inclusion of scientific journals in the electronic databases Scopus and Web of Science, which requires the publisher to implement the selection criteria, strictly established by these systems. This is one solution for a web-based platform, supporting the electronic journals of multiple organizations like universities and educational institutions, each having its own unique design and structure, but all meeting the requirements of the global indexing systems and following the Open Access policies. Even though it supports multiple unique websites, the platform is designed using a single repository architecture, avoiding unnecessary duplications of code and design. The platform helps the organizations by providing them with the software solution for publishing their periodic publications and making sure all requirements and standards are met and only unique and quality scientific articles are published. It uses popular open-source technologies to meet its requirements, so it doesn't require any additional costs for software, except for the underlying server and network infrastructure.