Sahon Bhattacharyya, Kalyan Mondal, Shalabh Agarwal and Asoke Nath, St. Xavier's College, India

Due to immense advances in internet technologies in recent times, the entire method of maintenance and publication of journals has changed drastically. People prefer journals to be published online rather than to be published in printed form because of cost and availability. An online journal has multifaceted advantages, such as for example, publication time is instantaneous and the Editor can almost single-handedly manage the entire publication process. The readers can access the journal contents from anywhere and at anytime. By moving towards web-based journal systems, not only are we saving money, we are also making the transition towards the paradigms of green computing. In the United States and many European countries, most of the IT related journals are published online over the World Wide Web. India is also moving very fast in this direction. In this paper the authors have given a brief idea how to develop a web-based Journal Management System with all possible options in functionality and security. In the present research paper, the authors have demonstrated the first phase of the work and it will be implemented very soon in the authors’ parent institution.

Online Journal, MVC Architecture, OOP PHP, Role Management