What is Continuous Publication?
Ans: In academic publishing, the Continuous Publication (CP) model or Publish-as-you-go refers to the practice of releasing scholarly articles online immediately upon completion, rather than aggregating them into conventional journal “issues”. This approach diverges from traditional publishing formats, which typically group articles into scheduled batches, such as monthly or quarterly releases.
This approach enhances the efficiency of the publication workflow and mitigates the delays commonly encountered in traditional issue-based models.
The Journal of South Asian Exchanges follows the Continuous Publication Process with the following criteria:
- An article will be published online immediately after the peer-review process, revision, and production process are over without waiting for all article to be ready for a particular issue. Articles will be added to the current issue one after one.
- The Journal of South Asian Exchange will assign a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and individual page numbers to every research article published in the journal. The citation of a research article must contain its DOI, Volume number and issue number.
- Articles published through the continuous model may subsequently be organized by the Journal into periodic issues for archival and referencing purposes.
Reasons for Following Continuous Publication
- This approach enhances the efficiency of the publication workflow and mitigates the delays commonly encountered in traditional issue-based models.
- This open access journal helps the published research articles to be immediately citable, enabling earlier academic recognition and facilitating prompt indexing in relevant databases.
- Articles are published as soon as they are ready, leading to more frequent social media promotion and engagement.