KISTI-ACOMS : Article Contribution Management System
Myung-Seok Choi
Authors: Myung-Seok
Choi, Jae-Won Park, Hee-Seok Jeong, Mu-Yeong Kang and Sun-Hwa Hahn
Knowledge Information Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information,
KISTI-ACOMS has been developed as a part of the national project for raising information society index of academic societies since 2001. The latest version of KISTI-ACOMS, ACOMS ver. 2.0, was released last year. It was developed based on more than 300 requirements from many academic societies to meet the users’ needs. ACOMS automates almost every activity of academic societies including membership management, journal processing, and conference organization. For the journal publishing process, ACOMS automates the whole process from the paper submission, peer review to the publishing of the journal and updating the journal database. This can help a society not only to build the electronic journal database but also to maintain the record of peer reviews. ACOMS also provides the function to check similar papers based on huge journal database in KISTI, and English interface to publish international journals. Conference management module has functions of creating new conference, paper submission and peer review process, pre-registration, conference statistics, and other managerial functions for organizing a conference.
ACOMS can be customized easily by the system administrator of an academic society. System administrator can set up the initial variables such as membership categories, membership fee, organization of the society, journal publishing process, and so on.
Until now, KISTI ACOMS has been distributed to 176 academic societies. The electronic databases built by ACOMS are serviced to the users through KISTI website (http://www.yeskisti.net/) along with other journal databases created by conventional way. KISTI plans to raise the ratio of ACOMS database up to 100% in the future.
Keywords: academic societies, journal publishing, article submission, peer review