RBGI New OJS (2024) and information to Authors

Dear Authors and readers, we hope you are well,

Over the past 10 months, RBGI has been involved in a critical migration of its platform and editorial workflow. The aim was to integrate RBGI in an new OJS unified system and with the staff of the University Publisher (EDUCS), which will manage all UCS Journals System and part of the editorial workflow.

With this transition, all articles from RBGI foundation - an history of 10 years - on OJS 2 were migrated and indexed in the new unified OJS 3, stabilizing the platform and technology for the next few years. 

Due to the complexity of this change, however, necessary for quality improvement and journal indexing in several databases, our editorial workflow and communication system was affected. Aware of the platform migration limitations and challenges, we had to slow down desk-review to minimize impacts, in the context that the project do suffered some delays - expected in complex migration like these with 10 journals.

Now that we have received confirmation to initiate the activities we are informing authors of the following organization: 

1) The new RBGI website is: https://sou.ucs.br/etc/revistas/index.php/RBGI, will all the articles from RBGI foundation.

2) However, until the end of 2024, all the ongoing submission workflow (desk and peer review) will continue to run in https://sou.ucs.br/revistas/index.php/RBGI/index, the previous OJS. This is because it won´´´t be possible to migrate ongoing evaluations from the old to new system, and to respect the submission queue. 

3) To stabilize the workflow, all new submissions will be interrupted in 2024 on both platforms.

4) Manuscripts that are already in peer review will keep up the workflow, and will be published in the new platform, if approved.

5) Manuscripts that are in the queue to enter in desk-review, from 01/07 to 05/07, will be processed in batch.

6) Authors who would like to understand their article status or remove their article from the RBGI workflow can please reach Associate Editor Catiane Borsato at cborsatto@ucs.br, from 08/07 to 19/07. After this date, peer-review will be started. 

7) Authors with already approved articles from Jan 2024 will face a new PDF graphical design by Associate Editor Bruna Libardi that meets up-to-date standards. More information available in RBGI announcements.

8) We would like to announce that RBGI has been qualified for Redalyc indexing in january 2024, and technical development will be now started, now that the migration were completed.

We apologize for any inconvenience in this transition phase, and thank you for your comprehension.

RBGI Editorial Team