The following illustrated steps will walk you through a submission to PUBLIC using our Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
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Visit http;//ojs.syr.edu.
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If you have not already registered an account, do so by clicking “Register Here.”
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This will take you to the account registration page. Please complete ALL information to the best of your ability. Please include the biographical statement that you would like to have appear in the final published piece. Make sure to check “Author/Creator” in the “Register As” section at the bottom of the page, and, if you wish to receive a confirmation email with your account details, select this option as well.
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Once you have registered your account, you will receive an email to verify your account; please check your email and click the link in this email to verify.
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Once you have verified your account, or if you already have an account and clicked the “Login” link on the main page, you will now be presented with a login screen. Enter your username and password.
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Once you have logged in, you will be taken to the User Home. Select “New Submission” on the “Author/Creator” line to start the submission process.
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On the next page you are taken to, select the section to which you would like to submit your work, assure that you have read and complied with all points in the Submission Checklist, and accept the Copyright Notice. Once you are done, click “Save and Continue.”
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You will then be taken to the second step of the submission process. The “Submission File” should be the primary file of your submission. For text-centered submissions, this file will include all primary textual content and media references (please review all submissions requirements). For interactive or other submissions that are not primarily textual, this file will contain the overview/description of the reader’s/viewer’s/listener’s experience. In either case, all media files (image, video and/or audio, and other interactive media content) will be submitted in a later step as “Supplementary Files.” When you have selected and uploaded this primary file, select “Save and Continue.”
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The third step of the submission process is to enter data about your submission (“metadata.”) This metadata is essential not only for the indexing of your work on public and private searchable research databases, but for the successful functioning of the journal’s own archive and interactive data representations. For multi-authored submissions, this is the stage at which you enter the information about each of your additional authors/creators. Again, please make sure to include on this page the biographical information you want to appear with the authors’ names in the final published work. Note also that one author/creator must be selected as the primary contact for editorial purposes. Please be thoughtful and thorough with all of your remaining entries on this page in order to provide the most meaningful and accurate representation and indexing of your submission. Once again, when you are done, click “Save and Continue.”
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The fourth step of the submission process is to upload and enter data about your supplementary files. Please assure that your files meet all the requirements of the multimedia submissions guidelines. Here, after uploading each file, you will be given an opportunity to enter information about the file’s ownership, authorship, etc., as well as caption and other credit information. Please be as precise as you can be with this information. Note especially the option to “Present file to reviewers.” If you file contains any identifying information about the authors/creators, do NOT select this option in order to maintain a fully double-blind peer-review process. Otherwise, please select this option. When you are done uploading and adding data about all of your media files, click “Save and Continue.”
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Finally, confirm your submission details, and when you are ready, click “Finish Submission” to complete the submission process.
