Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva - current state and perspectives

Abstract

The journal Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva was founded by geologists and enthusiasts led by Prof. Jovan Žujović in 1888, while the first issue was published a year later. The first issue had 160 pages, containing 20 figures and a geological sketch map of the Kingdom of Serbia created by .ujovi., printed in color at a scale of 1:500000. For the first six decades, the journal did not have a regular annual periodicity, but since 1949, it has been published regularly every year. From the very beginning, the journal published articles from all geological disciplines, but also from mining, which makes it the oldest scientific and professional geological journal in Serbia, as well as in the Balkans. The journal shared the fate of the state and the people, so it was not published during the First and Second World Wars, while the general periodicity of the journal before the First World War was much weaker than between the two wars (1918.1941). Since 2017, following the publishing standards of the 21st century ] the journal has been accepting only online submission of papers through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform, which also represents the Internet presentation of the journal. In addition to the OJS platform, a digital library of the journal was created. It contains metadata about all published papers from the first to the last issue, according to the Dublin core standard, while the full PDF versions of works from 2002 are downloadable free of charge in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribute 4.0 International (CC BY) license. The editorial board plans to publish two issues per year since 2018, which is a basic precondition for a journal to be included in the evaluation process for assigning impact factor and indexing in the SCIe list.