An academic journal at my university, after successfully publishing five volumes, failed to continue publishing for the last three years, due to some difficult situations. Now the management has upgraded support to the journal and assigned some new editors to continue to run the normal publications. What should the new editors do about the last three volumes missed? Should they look for manuscripts to fill the backlogged volumes? Or should they just continue publishing the next volume as volume 6? What could be the implications to the journal's reputation to have a visible gap in the years of publications?
@ IVO Carneiro de Sousa. Thank you for the response. There is actually no change in orientation, focus or scope of the journal. The change of editors is also because the former ones are now either retired, moved to another place or in a more demanding position which makes it difficult for them to continue with the journal. What do you think will be the problems if the journal restarts publishing as vol. 6?
Dear Mulubrhan Balehegn, I agree with Ivo Carneiro, but I dare to suggest to consult a librarian of your university on the following basis: in México, the used expressión to a journal which publicaction was interrupted, is "Nueva Época". By using this term, there is no neccesity to change the ISSN. On the other hand, it is advisable that the editor writes - in his/her editorial page - the reasons why the journal stopped, but will continue to be published.
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