Manuscript Status Control Algorithm in Electronic Periodicals

An important issue for the development of electronic periodicals is the design of workflow engine based on the practical paper process in editorial to accomplish manuscript submitting, editing, reviewing, publishing and subscriptions etc. automatically. In this paper an approach based on status control is proposed and its algorithm is presented. The unified management of whole processes for manuscript is completed by decomposition of operation by summarizing and abstracting the relevant activities. Practical test shows that the electronic periodical system based on this algorithm is very practical and flexible.