{"id":766,"date":"2018-02-14T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:12:32","slug":"growing-a-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2018\/02\/14\/growing-a-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discernment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a journal from ACU\u2019s Siburt Institute and hosted by ACU Library, is gaining influence due in part to the Library\u2019s journal services.The Library helped <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discernment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> get started in 2015 to further unique scholarship in practical theology and as part of the Library\u2019s open access initiative. \u00a0Now in its third year, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discernment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has expanded to a worldwide readership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is not enough merely to put articles online. \u00a0A journal has to be discoverable in places that researchers look, and it has to communicate clearly its quality. \u00a0Part of the Library\u2019s journal services is to provide expertise on how to do these things,\u201d said Laura Baker (&#8217;87).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The library most recently applied for an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) from the Library of Congress for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discernment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and that application was successful. \u00a0The ISSN is a mark of recognition and legitimacy for journals. \u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discernment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> articles have been downloaded over 2,300 times, and downloads have nearly doubled each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ISSN is just the first step. \u00a0With this number in place, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discernment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can now be considered for inclusion in major indexes such as EBSCO and Directory of Open Access Journals. \u00a0It is all part of making good research visible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discernment, a journal from ACU\u2019s Siburt Institute and hosted by ACU Library, is gaining influence due in part to the Library\u2019s journal services.The Library helped Discernment get started in 2015 to further unique scholarship in practical theology and as part of the Library\u2019s open access initiative. \u00a0Now in its third year, Discernment has expanded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}