To create a new journal, simply click the link and fill out the following Journal Settings form.
Form Options are as follows:
Form Language: If you are working in a multilingual journal, you will need to complete this form in all languages.
Journal Title: This field is mandatory. What you enter here will appear as the new journal's title in it's header. You can change the journal title at a later date, and Journal Managers will be able to change it, and upload header images, from their journal management pages as well.
Journal Description: Anything entered in this field will appear on the new journal's home page. You can change this informaiton at a later date, and Journal Managers will be able to change the information as well from their journal management pages.
Path: This field is mandatory. The path you enter here will become part of the
new journal's URL, listed after index.php. For example, if your
journal title was Journal of Canadian Studies, you may want your path to be 'jcs',
or perhaps 'canstudies'. If you enter 'js', that journal's URL will be
http://example.com/index.php/jcs. You can come back to this page
and change the path value at a later date; be aware, however, that you may break
search engine and other links by doing so.
Enable This Journal to Appear Publicly on the Site: Checking this box will display the journal title as a hyperlink on the site's home page. If you uncheck the box the journal will not be listed -- but the URL will still be accessible by non-privileged users.
Your new journal will be created once you have filled in all appropriate information and clicked the button. Additionally, you will have been enrolled as a Journal Manager for this new journal. At this point you will be the only registered user for that journal, and you should either register an appropriate Journal Manager for initial setup, or undertake initial setup yourself.
