# Suggestions for the Insight Journal

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/suggestions-for-the-insight-journal/784>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** insight-journal\
**Created:** [March 20, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/suggestions-for-the-insight-journal/784 "2018-03-20T14:01:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![phcerdan](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/phcerdan/32/286_2.png) [@phcerdan](https://discourse.itk.org/u/phcerdan)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/suggestions-for-the-insight-journal/784/1 "2018-03-20T14:01:40Z")

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The goal of the Insight Journal, and its commitment with open science and reproducibility is superb. But it could catch up in some areas from my point of view:

- Give each article a [DOI](https://www.doi.org/faq.html). This could be used to link it from elsewhere (for example Arxiv), count citations, etc.
- Clean/protect against [spam](http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/986) in the free comments.

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/suggestions-for-the-insight-journal/784/2 "2018-03-20T14:17:58Z")

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> [@phcerdan](#):
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> The goal of the Insight Journal, and its commitment with open science and reproducibility is superb. But it could catch up in some areas from my point of view:

Yes, you are right, Pablo.

> [@phcerdan](#):
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> Give each article a DOI. This could be used to link it from elsewhere (for example Arxiv), count citations, etc.

I have talked with the editors of [The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)](https://joss.theoj.org/) about this. They have managed to get DOI’s and maintain DOI’s with [a minimal amount of funding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPJAAhsjans). As the [Insight Software Consortium](http://insightsoftwareconsortium.org/) reboots, it may be able to support DOI’s. 📖

> [@phcerdan](#):
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> Clean/protect against spam in the free comments.

I think the best approach to clean / protect again spam and security issues is to migrate the Insight Journal to a static web site. Updates and articles could be submitted through via pull requests on GitHub, which is the standard mechanism for the open science software contribution. It also will also provide a pass of peer review and prevent any spam. Static websites can be hosted in a sustainable way (for free) on GitHub Pages, Netlify, etc., and easily migrated. They archive well on [archive.org](http://archive.org). This has been on my to-do list, but if anyone would like to take it up, please let me know 🙂.

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**Author:** ![jhlegarreta](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/jhlegarreta/32/476_2.png) [@jhlegarreta](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jhlegarreta)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/suggestions-for-the-insight-journal/784/3 "2018-03-20T16:46:59Z")

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+1 for what @phcerdan and @matt.mccormick have stated. I’ll try to help @matt.mccormick in this task.

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**Author:** ![phcerdan](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/phcerdan/32/286_2.png) [@phcerdan](https://discourse.itk.org/u/phcerdan)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/suggestions-for-the-insight-journal/784/4 "2018-03-20T18:33:12Z")

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> [@matt.mccormick](#):
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> The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

I haven’t heard about them before, it’s a super good initiative! The github bot they use for the review process, that `whedon` seems effective.

I might be able to help in the short future as well with a free-tier heroku powered site (like JOSS), and/or the static website.