1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background Of Study
This project Case Study is channeled to NYSC (National Youth Service Corps) but can be used by any other organization that deals with quarterly or yearly publications. Sometimes, the problem associated with publication can be numerous and this leads to difficulties and challenges during editing as well as publications. Some of these challenges include collating of data and images for publication, editing of articles by different editorial officers before publication, distribution of this magazines to different state and offices etc.
During publication period, NYSC urges corps members that have articles to publish to bring their articles to the state secretariat for editing and scrutinizing if they are publishable but due to the fact that corps member might not be available due to distance between their place of primary assignment and the state secretariat.
This project tell more about how effective the internet can be used as a tool to handle problems associated with the editing, collating and publication of articles. It demonstrates a special way with different channels at which an article will pass through during editing without losing it relevance.
1.2 Aims and Objectives of Study
The aim of the study is to design and implement an Electronic Magazine portal for Editorial and Publication. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows to develop an application software that will:
- Create a platform where articles and data can be efficiently organized for publication in a magazine.
- Create a channel which these articles will pass through and various editorial officers will used these channel to scan and edit these article before publication.
- Give details on images and thereby do automatic collation of these images and prepare them for publication.
- Enable Corps Members to write their articles and submit for proper editing and publication irrespective of their current location.
- Integrate a social platform within the corps member only where they can communicate and share ideas within themselves.
1.3 Scope Of Study
The scope of this project research is limited to the role of internet in information management and management information system (MIS).
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