The home page for a journal is the one which is seen when View Journal or Current Issue under the journal’s name on the site home page is clicked, or when a journal’s name is clicked from User Home.The Journal Home Page breaks down as follows:
Top Navigation Bar
Home and About provide information about the specific journal.
Log In and Register act as above, but redirect to the journal’s home page rather than the site home page.
User Home appears once you have logged in, and displays the user home page. This page provides links to manage your journal roles, and to manage your account.
Search provides extensive search options, but is used to search only the journal currently being viewed.
Current displays the table of contents of the current issue of the journal, if available.
Archives displays the names of previously published issues, if available. Clicking on the name of a previously published issue will display its table of contents.
An Announcements link appears on the top navigation bar if the Journal Manager has enabled announcements. Clicking on this link will access the announcements page.
Right Navigation Bar
The Open Journal Systems link will take you to the Public Knowledge Project website, which provides resources for Open Journals Systems and other related software.
The Journal Help link provides context sensitive help.
The form under User will allow you to log in if you have a username and password. After logging in you will be taken to your User Home page. Once logged in, there will be links under User to a list of journals you have registered to; to your profile; and to log out.
Language allows you to choose a language supported by OJS.
The search field under Journal Content allows you to search the journal’s content in a basic variety of ways. For a more comprehensive search, click the Search link on the top navigation bar.
Font Size allows you to make the site font size smaller or bigger.
There is also information for Authors, Readers and Librarians listed in the right navigation bar.