Author compliance in following open journal system of communication science in Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to test the theory proposed by D. Cuilier (2010) that compliance gaining has a correlation with the availability of information access. In this study, hypothesis testing is done on the phenomenon of influence between the availability of information in Open Journals System (OJS) in the field of communication science in Indonesia to the compliance of the author. In order to fulfill the important elements of the implementation of Tri Dharma (Three Pillars of Higher Education), lectures need a means for scientific dissemination. On the other hand, the managers of scientific journals in the field of communication science studies in Indonesia incorporated in APJIKI (Association of Publishers Journal of Communication Science Indonesia), seeks to manage the existence of the issue by maintaining the quantity and quality of incoming scientific articles. The main problem in the process of review of scientific articles is the authors’ conformity with the style guide of scientific journal. The availability of information regarding to the provisions of the writing of scientific journals provided on the online page should be responded by the applicant’s obedience during the preparation of a scientific article. The influence between the two variables is tested by quantitative research approach in positivism paradigm, based on the two dimensions of information availability from Mark Burgin (2010) and the six basic principles of Robert Cialdini (2004) about the writer’s concession in obeying the style guide of scientific journal. This study has been done to 42 respondents, who represent the editor of communication science journals in Indonesia. The result of this research shows that there is a significant influence of the availability variable of OJS style guide information towards the compliance of the writer of 13.10%, while the other 86.9% was influenced by other factors that can be used as a further research studies.