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Half-day training was given on Scholarly Journal Publishing, Editing, and Peer Review
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Half-day training was given on Scholarly Journal Publishing, Editing, and Peer Review
Following Wallaga University' STAR Journal online publication resumption and other five WGU online and open access Journal commencement, the President office and Research, Community Service and Industry Linkage vice president's offices are continuously holding technical and professional discussions aiming at technical and ethical problems evaluations of the University's experience of STAR Journal so as to smoothly run both earlier and the newly commenced Journals.
Today (2 June, 2023) half-day training was given to academic administrators, chief editors, accessed reviewers, associate research and post graduate deans on a title '' Wallaga University Journals: Codes of Best Practices in Scholarly Journal Publishing, Editing, and Peer Review'' by Dr. Hasan Yusuf, President of the University. Fundamental principles of research publishing were highlighted by the presenter and discussions have been held following rising of questions and comments as to the administration and the University's earlier practice.
When explaining why the training was organized, the president told the trainees that branding the University's Journals is necessary by following publication principles, both national and international research guidelines, by maintaining ethics and quality we have to strive for international Standards, he told the trainees. Besides, the training has also aimed at capacitating chief editors, peer reviewers, and academic and research administrators to strengthen internal administration of WGU Journals.
The University has already bought Plagiarism checker software and the training of both academic and research staff will start very soon. The University will develop its own plagiarism policy that will be annexed to research articles when they are given/sent to reviewers.
Editorial process, editorial policy, roles of editors and reviewers, issues related to editorial boards/governance of Journals , role of editorial board, and peer review process were among the top titles entertained during the training.
The president has also assured the participants that series of capacity building training will be held in collaboration with academic and research wings.
The office Publication and Dissemination Directorate is mandated to draft guidelines and policy which govern authors, editors, and reviewers by seeking and referring to both national and international documents and policies related to research and journals' publications.