Changes and Challenges of Producing a Student-run Peer-reviewed Publication

New Home Page:http://

djim.management.dal.ca

Embedded Email Client

Workflow Management

Old Home Page

Poster created by:Amy Paterson and Stephanie Winston,DJIM Editorial Co-Chairs 2010-11djim@dal.ca

Fig. 1: DJIM email

Fig. 2: FTP file storage

Fig. 3: Anatomy of the new DJIM website

Fig. 4: DJIM in the DOAJ

To stabilize and authenticate DJIM’s online presence, we applied for and successfully obtained an ISSN: 1923-6530.DJIM is now listed in significant journal repositories, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (Fig. 4).

A social networking presence was established through Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Find us!:Facebook.com/DalhousieDJIMTwitter.com/DalhousieDJIM

1.Acquire funding for a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

2.Expand our coverage to two issues per year—one each in the Fall and Winter semesters

3.Expand our interdisciplinary scope, with the goal of publishing equal content from all schools within Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management

4.Register content in further online repositories to increase DJIM’s readership and influence

5.Continue to publish the best graduate student work from Dalhousie’s excellent Faculty of Management!

The Dalhousie Journal of Information & Management was formed in 2005 by a group of six Masters of Library and Information Studies students who wished to showcase the best student work from Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management.

By 2008 it was renamed the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (DJIM) to better reflect the diverse and wide-ranging work coming out of the Faculty of Management. DJIM is a student-led initiative aimed at publishing Dalhousie graduate student work of the highest quality and significance in all areas of management.

Goals:

1.To foster the convergence of ideas within the fields of Business Administration, Environmental Studies, Information Management, Public Administration, and Marine Affairs2.To promote collegiality3.To encourage interdisciplinary communication and research

In 2010, DJIM expanded its organizational mandate by:

•Creating departmental liaison positions in all five Schools in Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management•Revising our executive structure to incorporate new positions in Special Projects and Communications•Increasing participation across departments