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Volume
Planning
Plan Every Volume. Automate Every Publishing Schedule.
Successful journal publishing begins with effective planning. Every volume requires careful coordination of publication frequency, issue composition, editorial workflows, production schedules, and target publication dates. PageMajik Volume Planning enables publishers to define the complete publishing plan for a journal, automatically generating issues, publication schedules, and workflow timelines from configurable schedule templates.
Whether publishing monthly, quarterly, continuously, or on a custom publication cycle, PageMajik transforms long-term publishing plans into structured, automated production schedules that keep editorial and production teams aligned throughout the publishing year.
FAQ
How Can Volume Planning Help You?
Planning a publishing programme should be predictable, repeatable, and automated. PageMajik Volume Planning enables publishers to define publishing frequency, issue composition, workflows, and schedule templates once, allowing the platform to automatically generate publication plans and issue schedules for the entire volume.
Define the publication frequency, volume start date, target publication dates, issue composition, and production workflow once. PageMajik automatically generates every planned issue within the volume, eliminating repetitive planning while ensuring consistency across the publishing programme.
Every journal follows its own publication model. Configure monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annual, continuous, or custom publishing schedules together with journal-specific issue composition, article capacity, workflow templates, and production timelines while maintaining consistent planning standards across all journals.
Working backwards from each planned publication date, PageMajik applies configurable workflow and schedule templates to automatically calculate editorial, production, proofing, and publishing milestones for every planned issue. Manual schedule preparation is eliminated, improving planning accuracy and operational consistency.
Define the expected page count and planned article composition for every issue, including the number of articles for each article type. Publishers gain better visibility into publishing capacity, helping editorial and production teams plan resources and maintain publication commitments.
Whether managing a single title or hundreds of journals, PageMajik provides reusable workflow templates, scheduler templates, configurable publication models, dashboards, reporting, APIs, and a scalable microservices architecture that supports predictable publishing operations at enterprise scale.
Getting Started
Volume Planning transforms publication objectives into executable production schedules. Publishers simply define how the journal publishes, and PageMajik automatically creates the issues, publication dates, workflows, and production schedules required to deliver every issue on time.
Benefits & Capabilities
SmartSubmit supports both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts and architected to work for books as well as journals. It covers almost all the scenarios including the outliers that can happen during submission.
Standardise Publishing Schedules Across Every Journal
Consistent scheduling improves predictability across editorial and production operations. PageMajik applies reusable workflow templates and scheduler templates to every planned issue, ensuring milestones, due dates, and publication timelines are calculated consistently regardless of journal size or publication frequency.
Plan an Entire Volume Instead of Individual Issues
Publishing should begin with a strategic plan rather than repeated manual setup. PageMajik enables publishers to define an entire publishing cycle by configuring publication frequency, issue composition, workflows, scheduler templates, and target publication dates. The platform automatically creates the complete volume structure, allowing publishers to focus on delivering quality content instead of managing repetitive administrative tasks.
Features
Volume Planning
  • Volume creation
  • Volume start date
  • Publication year
  • Volume lifecycle
  • Publishing calendar
  • Multiple volume management
Publication Planning
  • Monthly publication
  • Bi-monthly publication
  • Quarterly publication
  • Annual publication
  • Custom publication frequency
  • Fixed number of issues
  • Planned publication dates
  • Automatic issue generation
Issue Planning
  • Planned issue creation
  • Planned article capacity
  • Article type allocation
  • Expected article distribution
  • Journal-specific issue composition
Issue Composition
  • Planned page count
  • Configurable verification forms
  • Digital signatures
  • Corresponding author confirmation
  • Author declarations
Workflow & Scheduling
  • Workflow assignment
  • Scheduler template assignment
  • Automatic schedule generation
  • Milestone calculation
  • Due date calculation
  • Production planning
  • Editorial planning
  • Workflow inheritance
Enterprise
  • Multi-journal planning
  • Reusable workflow templates
  • Reusable scheduler templates
  • Dashboards
  • Reporting
  • Audit trail
  • REST APIs
  • Role-based security
  • Microservices architecture
  • Enterprise scalability
Optimise Issue Capacity Before Production Begins
Successful publishing depends on balancing editorial workload with production capacity. Define the planned page allocation and expected article composition for every issue, including article counts by article type. Publishers gain early visibility into issue capacity, enabling better resource planning and reducing last-minute publication adjustments.
Automate Schedule Generation from Publication Dates
Publication dates drive every activity within the publishing process. PageMajik automatically calculates editorial, peer review, production, proofing, and publication schedules by working backwards from the planned publication date using configurable scheduler templates. Teams receive realistic timelines without manually preparing individual schedules.
Deliver Predictable Publishing at Enterprise Scale
Managing multiple journals with different publication frequencies, workflows, and production schedules can quickly become complex. PageMajik centralises volume planning using configurable publishing models, reusable workflow templates, dashboards, reporting, APIs, and scalable scheduling services, enabling publishers to standardise operations while preserving journal-specific publishing requirements.
Architecture
PageMajik Volume Planning is built on a scalable microservices architecture that separates publication planning, workflow orchestration, scheduling, reporting, and journal configuration into independent services. Publishers define publication models, issue composition, workflows, and scheduler templates once, while the platform automatically generates issues and production schedules for each publishing cycle.

By combining reusable workflow templates with configurable scheduler templates, PageMajik provides a predictable planning framework that supports large multi-journal publishing programmes while allowing every journal to maintain its own publication frequency, editorial process, and production timeline.
Frequently Asked Questions
Apart from the time to time enhancements for better user experience, following are the features in the roadmap.
Volume Planning enables publishers to define how a journal publishes throughout a publishing cycle by configuring publication frequency, issue composition, workflows, scheduler templates, and planned publication dates.
Yes. Every journal can define its own publication model, including monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annual, continuous, or custom publication schedules.
Yes. Based on the configured publication frequency or number of issues, PageMajik automatically generates the planned issues for the volume.
Yes. Publishers can define the expected page capacity for every issue.
Yes. Planned article composition, including the number of articles for each article type, can be configured.
Yes. Every journal can define its own issue composition and publishing targets.
Yes. Workflows are configured independently for every journal and assigned during volume planning.
PageMajik applies the configured scheduler template and automatically calculates milestones and due dates by working backwards from the planned publication date.
Yes. Scheduler templates can be reused across journals while supporting journal-specific configuration.
The production schedule can be recalculated using the assigned scheduler template, ensuring milestones remain aligned with the revised publication date.
Yes. Publishers can manage volume plans for multiple journals from a single enterprise platform.
Yes. Volume Planning is fully configurable through business administration tools without requiring application changes.
No. Volume Planning defines the publishing plan and automatically generates issue schedules. The actual assembly and publication of articles is managed through the separate Issue Builder module.
Yes. Volume plans, publication schedules, workflow assignments, and configuration changes are fully audit trailed for governance and operational transparency.
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