Abstract
An online ride-hailing app is a must-have app on your mobile devices, because it's features have been extended to meet almost modern urban needs. What if we could adopt the same features and functionalities for the academic publishing ecosystem. We proudly introduce the conceptual of GO-PUB. GO-PUB is an online app that provides a spatial database of scholarly journal publishers in Indonesia and to connect it with potential authors. Potential authors could find the perfect journal near their locations, complete with supporting pieces of information about the journal publishing system. The concept of GO-PUB is open source and cross platforms, hosted in public repository to make sure everyone could share their knowledge and contribution to the project.
Highlights
In the academic scene, one would receive a marching of call for papers from academic journal publishers
Our imagination was an application that connects a potential author with an academic journal publisher that suits his/her scope of research (Fig. 1)
The original idea is to apply the same zoning concept to the scholarly publishing system, where Indonesia currently is the home of 1530 academic journals with different scopes in 9 fields of study (DOAJ 2019)
Summary
The sum of Indonesian journal is second best, after UK, based on DOAJ. Due to the large number, authors need to have a list of relevant national-level journals for their manuscript. Direct communication frequently occurs between author and editor in chief for a preliminary check of a draft, usually to check the relevancy of the manuscript's topic with the scope of the journal.
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