The Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium (KLISC) has initiated a project to improve technical, editorial and management capacity of its official publication, the KLISC Journal of Information Science & Knowledge Management. KLISC is EIFL’s partner library consortium in Kenya.
The KLISC Journal Information Science and Knowledge Management, a Diamond open access journal, is published twice a year and is dedicated to the exchange of the latest academic research and practical information on all aspects of information science and knowledge management.
The project will address several challenges that the journal faces. It will modernize the journal’s production infrastructure by upgrading its Open Journal Systems (OJS) management and publishing platform, implementing advanced tools for formatting and design and enhancing the website’s user interface. At the same time, KLISC will develop a technical manual on OJS management and conduct training to ensure that there is an adequately skilled technical team to manage, troubleshoot and maintain the OJS platform.
Insufficient editorial capacity will be addressed through workshops on best practices in managing editorial workflows, handling manuscripts, and conducting peer reviews, providing detailed guidelines and templates, and implementing a mentorship programme for journal editors. To further improve journal quality, KLISC will organize training for peer reviewers, develop a reviewer’s guide and establish a quality-assurance committee.
The project will facilitate SEO (search engine optimization - a process that increases visibility and traffic by improving a website’s rankings in search results) and metadata quality, organize outreach events and develop a comprehensive marketing strategy to promote the journal through academic networks and social media.
The ‘Enhancing No-Fee Open Access Publishing for the KLISC Journal of Information Science & Knowledge Management Journal of Informatics’ project’ is one of 30 projects that have received grant support through a three-year project to strengthen no-fee open access publishing in Africa implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network), with funding from Wellcome.
Activities
- Upgrading the journal’s OJS publishing platform
- Skilling a team to manage and maintain OJS
- Organizing and providing training for journal editors and peer reviewers, including a mentorship program pairing experienced editors with new editorial staff
- Optimizing SEO and metadata, and marketing the journal
- Indexing the journal in relevant services and databases
Timeline
September 2025 - August 2026
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