BanglaJOL and the JSR

My experience with the online system

By A.K.M.A Islam

As a physicist I have been an editorial board member of two national journals and reviewer of several national and international journals. However, until recently, I had never been associated with an online journal. My first experience with this began in March 2008, when I was made the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Research (JSR), which was planned to launch in January 2009.

The idea of launching a journal that would publish high quality scientific works was planted earlier that year during a science faculty meeting at Rajshahi University. In fact, at that time, no international journal (online or print) with an interdisciplinary character, specifically catering to the academic needs of the international community, operated from Bangladesh. The new journal aimed to fill this gap, to be a bridge for the scientists from the east and the west and become a forum for the dissemination of knowledge.

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