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Publishing & product notes
Release announcements, workflow essays and short notes on the everyday questions of scholarly publishing.
What is a journal management system? Choosing between OJS, national platforms and commercial systems
Manuscript tracking system, electronic journal system, peer-review platform — different names for one category. Where its boundaries lie, what the options are, and the questions to ask before choosing.
How does a book get printed? Signatures, paper, print runs and reading a printer's quote
Printing is a production decision, not a purchase. From signature arithmetic to paper choice, from the offset–digital threshold to the print-run call: reading a printer's quote as a publisher.
How to start an academic journal: from ISSN to the first issue and on to indexing
Editorial board, ISSN registration, first call for papers, indexing roadmap — the founding of a peer-reviewed journal, with its formal steps and a realistic timetable.
Printings, editions and ISBN: does a second printing need a new number?
Reprint or new edition? The distinction decides the ISBN, and it is the one publishers get wrong most often. A decision table, the imprint page, and how the hierarchy should sit in a system.
Inventory in a publishing house: consignment, returns and the warehouse reality
"How many do we have?" has three correct answers in a press: in the warehouse, on consignment, sold. The facts about book inventory that general stock software does not know.
Publishing software, book management system, library automation: which one are you actually looking for?
Near-identical search terms lead to entirely different products. We separate the six categories in the publishing-software market and show which words take you where.
What does 'recognised publisher' mean in Turkish academic assessment?
Authors ask whether a book will count towards promotion. Where the definition sits in regulation, how court rulings changed it, what the associate professorship criteria require, and how a press prepares for the status.
Submitting a book manuscript to a publisher: both sides of the desk
For authors: how to prepare the file, what belongs in the cover letter, how long a reply takes. For publishers: how to build a submissions desk, how to write a rejection, what to measure.
What is a book management system? From the library catalogue to the publishing system
One term, two different worlds: the library system that manages books you acquired, and the publishing system that manages books you produce. The difference, the anatomy of a book record, and how to choose.
Nasirus V2 is here: what's new in this release
Books, journals, articles, and chapters now run through one system. Here are the highlights of our biggest release yet.
What is a publishing management system? The modules it must include
There's journal software, accounting software, e-commerce platforms — but what runs the whole press? Defining the category, its essential modules, and how to choose.
Impartiality in review: on double-blind peer review
Anonymous review underpins academic trust. What double-blind peer review is, why it remains the most preferred model, and how to protect anonymity in practice.
Publishing automation: 10 jobs to hand the machine, 3 decisions to keep
Automation doesn't mean 'let the system do everything.' A realistic automation map for publishers: drudgery to the machine, judgment to people.
From journal issue to online store: the journey of a single issue
From the table-of-contents editor to proofs, from publication to articles going live automatically — how a journal issue flows through Nasirus.
E-commerce for publishers: five requirements generic platforms don't know about
Selling books is not like selling t-shirts. ISBN-driven catalogs, banderole-tracked stock, digital access, and the royalty chain — publishing's own e-commerce requirements.
From call for chapters to edited volume: managing a book with fifty authors
Opening a call for chapters is easy; managing fifty authors, two review phases, and all their deadlines is not. The edited-volume workflow, end to end.
A KVKK data-protection checklist for publishers
Explicit consent, retention periods, reviewer data, and e-commerce customer records — the 12 points every publishing house should review.
From acceptance to the printing press: a book's production pipeline
Copyediting, translation, typesetting, cover, and print — the anatomy of turning an accepted manuscript into a book, with parallel tracks and quality gates.
Reviewer tracking systems: from pool management to turnaround time
Reviewer management is more than keeping a list of names: expertise matching, workload balance, invitation tracking, performance records. The anatomy of a good reviewer tracking system.
Peer-review records for TR Dizin: is your file ready for evaluation?
TR Dizin requires documented peer review: reports, decisions, a process file. What the criteria demand of your process records — and how to have the file ready from day one.
What makes a good submission form? Collecting the right data without exhausting authors
Incomplete submissions are the editorial office's biggest time sink. Design principles for a form that doesn't scare authors off yet captures everything editors need.
Diamond open access: the model where neither author nor reader pays
As APC invoices balloon, diamond open access is back in the spotlight. What the model is, where it stands globally, and why it fits university publishing so naturally.
Roles and permissions at a publishing house: should everyone see everything?
Should the accountant see reviewer reports, or the store operator see author correspondence? The finer points of role and permission design in publishing software.
Managing a university press: a guide to the real work after founding
The regulation is out, the publication committee is formed — now what? The daily realities of a university press: workflows, roles, ISBNs, sales, and institutional memory.
Why has finding reviewers become so hard?
Editors sending 20+ invitations to secure reviewers for one article are no longer the exception. Reviewer fatigue in numbers, and the realistic options editors have.
What DergiPark does — and doesn't do: an honest framework for institutional publishing
DergiPark is the backbone of Türkiye's academic journal infrastructure. So which of a university press's needs does it leave uncovered? Ask the right question before hunting for alternatives.
Author royalties: from contract to payout, a setup that works
What should the royalty rate be, what belongs in the contract, what is the payout calculated on? From the requirements of Turkish copyright law to industry practice — a publisher's guide.
How long does peer review take? Realistic expectations and ways to speed it up
You submitted your article and the phone stays silent. How many weeks to a first decision is normal, where the time actually goes, and what speeds it up — with data.
Print or digital? What the data says about the hybrid academic book
The digital revolution was declared twenty years ago; university presses still earn most of their revenue from print. The data points to a hybrid reality, not a binary.
Email, Excel, and four separate programs: the hidden cost of scattered tools
Publishers aren't worn down by a lack of tools but by an abundance of them. Submissions in email, reviews in a spreadsheet, sales on another site — what gets lost is context.
What is an edited volume? Definition, value, and how the process works
How an edited volume differs from a single-author book, where it stands in academic evaluation, and the rights and duties of chapter authors and editors along the way.
ISBN, banderole, and the publisher's certificate: a guide to official publishing procedures in Türkiye
The three official pillars of publishing a book in Türkiye: the publisher's certificate, the ISBN, and the banderole. Who applies where, in what order, and how editions map to ISBNs.