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The second field does most of the work — a link to your journal's archive. I need a name, an email to reply to, and the journal's name as well. Everything below those four is optional, and you should skip anything you'd have to go look up.

I'll typically get back to you within a few days of form submission.

Your name

Required.

Your journal's archive page

Required. A link to where your back issues live. This is the first thing I look at and it tells me most of what I need to know.

Journal name

Required.

Required. A person replies, not a system.

Your role

Editor Associate or managing editor Editorial team or board member Press or platform staff Librarian Something else

Where the journal stands right now

The last one is a perfectly normal answer and it's the one I hear most often. Finding out is about a two-minute job.

We have DOIs and we deposit reference lists We have DOIs but no reference lists We don't have DOIs I honestly don't know

What you're hoping for

Check as many as apply, or none.

Start minting DOIs Backfill the back catalog Set up ongoing deposit for new issues Just want to understand the options

Anything else I should know

Editorial team or board concerns, funding constraints, a platform migration underway, a predecessor journal with its own archive — anything that would change the answer.

I'd rather talk than write

Check this and I'll send a couple of times for a call.