Join the second EIFL webinar to discuss experiences of optimizing journal processes and workflows. Guest speaker Tesfaye Gebeyehu from Jimma University in Ethiopia will talk about enhanced initial manuscript screening procedures for their journals, and how managing and language editors and an assistant have helped to reduce editorial bottlenecks and strengthen coordination among editors, reviewers, and authors.

Also, Milica Ševkušić from the EIFL Open Access Programme, will present the EIFL guide, Editorial Workflows in Diamond Open Access Journals. 

• Date and time: Wednesday, 24 June, 9:00 UTC (convert to your timezone)
• Registration: Please register here

This is one of a series of EIFL webinars based on knowledge and experience gained from implementing projects to strengthen no-fee (Diamond) open access journal publishing. The presenters are grantees of the ‘Collaboration for sustainable open access publishing in Africa’ project, implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) with funding from Wellcome.

See the recordings and slides of other webinars in the series

• Building editorial capacity through mentorship
• Training programmes for journal editorial teams, reviewers and authors
• Optimizing journal processes and workflows (1)