University academic journal and annual research-to-practice conference for graduate and postgraduate students: Cooperation problems

Abstract

Research-to-practice conference, the theme of which matches the content of one or several journal sections, is considered as one of ways to solve the problem of new authors’ calling to the journal. On the one hand, the role of conference’s media partner is an element of journal promotion. Оn the other hand, the partnership with University conference for graduate and postgraduate students imposes additional load on editorial staff. When their workload is already high in a routine mode, they delegate conference papers’ editing and prepress to authors that can’t ensure high quality of publications. Moreover, if conference papers are published simultaneously with publication of journal articles based on conference reports the problem of text authenticity arises (i.e. self-plagiarism). These circumstances cause journal staff to doubt whether participation in university conferences as media partner makes sense.