DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE JOURNAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF SOKOTO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY)

CHAPTER FIVE:

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 SUMMARY

The system for Online Journal Management system (A case study of Sokoto International Journal of Counseling Psychology) has been successfully designed. This project research work consists of five chapters are will be summarized below:

In chapter one, background of the study, statement of the problem, aims and objectives, motivations, scope of the study, limitations of the study and definition of some terms were discussed.

In chapter two, relevant literatures were discussed; concept of journals, classifications of journals, online (electronic journals), features of online journals, advantages of online journal, disadvantages of online journals, review of existing online journal system and software tools that were used in the development of the system such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL etc.

In chapter three, analysis was carried out in terms of; analysis of the current manual system, analysis of the input, analysis of the output, analysis of the existing system procedure, files maintained, web-design methodology and the expectations of the new system were discussed.

In chapter four, a detailed explanation of the new proposed system was given in a general term covering; new input requirements, new system procedure, new output requirements, new files maintained, new system requirement (both hardware and software), use case modeling, database design(modeling), system implementation which include all user interface implementations were all discussed.

Finally, chapter five gives us a brief summary of all the previous chapters. Also in this chapter, all necessary documents used in the course of carryout this research will be well referenced. The chapter also contains conclusion, recommendation and suggestions for further research, references and appendices.

5.2 CONCLUSION

The effort being putten together for this project research have finally yielded a positive result. The Online Journal Management System will now have a positive impact on the current manual system being used by the Journal Administrators. This lead to the conclusion of saying that the aim of the project has successfully been achieved. Proper and well usage of the developed system will facilitate and ease almost all the processes involved from the stage of article submission up to the stage of article publication. The developed system also need to be hosted onto the World Wide Web (www) so as to be accessed and used by other researchers and users around the world.

5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS

Having developed the new system for Journal Management to Sokoto International Journal of Counselling Psychology (SIJCP), below are my recommendations/suggestions:

i. The designed system should be hosted on the World Wide Web (www) so that other researchers and users around the world can fully use the system.

ii. If hosted on the www, the system should be periodically updated with latest information about call for articles, review process or any other information concerning the Journal.

iii. The system should be fully implemented and adopted by the Journal Administrators i.e. all functionalities right from the stage of article submission up to the last stage which article publication should be fully used by users, administrators, reviewers and researchers.

iv. The system should be properly advertised by means of either television media, newspapers, magazines, notice boards in some institutions, other journals or even using Google advertisement.