How-to
Deleting a Journal Issue
Deleting a journal issue while keeping its articles in the catalogue, or together with its articles.
You can delete an issue even if it has been published. The articles of the issue either stay in the catalogue as drafts or go to the trash together with the issue. A deleted issue cannot be restored.
- On the Catalogue → Journals & issues screen, open the journal with Manage journal.
- On the Issues tab, press the trash button in the row of the issue. The Delete issue button on the page of the issue opens the same dialog.
- The dialog shows how many articles the issue has and how many of them are published. Under
The issue's articles, select an option.
- With Keep the articles in the catalogue, the articles leave the issue and return to draft. You can place them in another issue later. Published articles do not appear on the site until they are published again.
- With Delete the articles too, the articles move to the trash. They can be restored with the Show deleted filter of the Publications list.
- If the issue is not an empty draft, write a reason of at least 5 characters in the Reason (written to the audit log) field.
- Press Delete issue.
Issues that cannot be deleted
If the issue contains an archived or retracted article, the issue cannot be deleted, because these articles stay part of the publication record. In this case the dialog shows how many articles block the deletion.
Required permissions
Deleting an issue requires the permission to manage the journal. Unpublishing the published articles requires the permission to publish in the catalogue, and deleting the articles requires the permission to edit the catalogue. All these permissions belong to the Catalogue editor role.
The Editor-in-chief of a journal cannot delete an issue that has published articles. In this case the dialog says that a catalogue editor can delete the issue.
Effects of deletion
- When a published issue is deleted, the page of the issue is removed from the site.
- If a published article has a DOI, the DOI link no longer opens the article.
- If the journal is harvested from DergiPark, later harvests do not take the deleted articles in again.
- The issue placement of the production jobs planned for the issue is cleared.
- The deletion is written to the audit log together with the details of the issue and the list of its articles.
If needed, you can create a new issue with the same volume and issue number.