Electronic Publishing of the Online Journal

In this work we present the electronic publishing process of the Online Journal “Forum: Qualitative Social Research ” (FQS). We introduce technologies and tools used to optimize the publishing process, to provide sustainability of FQS publications and to extend the communicative possibilities, but also to net the FQS with other social research Internet resources and to make it accessible to other interdisciplinary groups. 1 FQS Publishing Process “Forum: Qualitative Social Research ” (FQS)1 is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research. The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and cooperation among qualitative researchers from different countries and social science disciplines. The FQS publishing process (Figure 1) includes three main components: authoring, review and presentation. Authors use a word processing tool, mostly Microsoft Word, to write an article. After the submission, the article passes through several review processes: technical, content, language and formal review. If the article is accepted for publication, the document is formatted and prepared for the final presentation. The article is then presented to the users in HTML and PDF format