The Sam Jonah Library of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in partnership with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) and the Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) have held a two-day workshop on Online Journal System (OJS) to build the capacity of Editors and the Administrators of University Journals to help them adopt technology in the scientific publishing of the research output of their respective Universities.
In addition to participants from the University of Cape Coast are participants from the Cape Coast Technical University, Takoradi Technical University, University of Mines and Technology and University of Education, Winneba.
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Professor Johnson Nyarko Boampong in a remark, urged participants of the workshop to pay close attention to the goal of the workshop.
“While focusing on it, kindly ensure that henceforth all journals that will be published by the university will be online to increase the visibility of our research outputs,” he added.
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Stressing the importance of the workshop in an interview with ATL FM NEWS on the sidelines of the workshop, the Librarian of UCC, Dr. Mac-Anthony Cobblah noted that the workshop will help promote the online publication of journals making them visible to the world and increasing their readership.
According to him, most of the University Journal are not visible because they are not web based adding that the workshop will help train our editors and administrators to be able to manage their journals online.
He therefore assured that henceforth university journals will be published online and indexed to citation data bases like ‘Scopus’.
SOURCE: ROSEMOND ASMAH/ATLFMNEWS
