Department of Health Administration and Policy FPH UI Holds Open Journal System Workshop

Tuesday, September 5, 2023, the Department of Health Administration and Policy (AKK) Faculty of Public Health (FPH) Universitas Indonesia (UI) held an Editorial Board Workshop on Management of the Open Journal System (OJS) and Improving the Quality of Article Substance in a hybrid manner. This event was attended by the Journal of Indonesian Health Policy and Administration (Journal of IHPA), the Indonesian Journal of Health Economics (EKI) and the Indonesian Hospital Administration Journal (ARSI) Department of Health Administration and Policy FPH UI.

At this workshop, Prof. Dr. Dra. Dumilah Ayuningtyas, M.A.R.S., who conveyed the roles and responsibilities of the Editorial Board in journal management and strategies for improving the quality of scientific journal management. Prof. Tyas conveyed the importance of maximizing the role of the Editorial Board in journal management. Apart from that, Prof. Dr. Purnawan Junadi, M.P.H., Ph.D., who invited workshop participants to discuss or share knowledge about Scopus indexed journals.

Furthermore, Dr. Imami Nur Rachmawati, S.Kp., M.Sc., Chair of the Editorial Board of the Indonesian Nursing Journal, provided an explanation regarding OJS, the importance of using a website-based platform by journal management, as well as the use of OJS for editors and reviewers. OJS itself is a website-based online scientific journal management platform which covers aspects of online journal publishing, from creating journal websites to operational tasks such as the author submission process, peer review, editing, publication, archives, and journal indexes.

This workshop is designed so that the Editorial Board becomes more familiar with the OJS platform as a means of carrying out journal business processes and optimizing its use so that all stages of the preparation process to publication can be documented in a more structured and neat manner. (wrk)