Concept
Four-Eyes Principle
The rule that the person who prepares a piece of work does not approve it, and the three places where JournTech applies it.
Under the four-eyes principle, the person who prepares a piece of work does not approve that same work. At least two people see each publishing decision, so fewer records are published and fewer requests are approved by mistake. JournTech applies this principle in three places.
Catalogue records
If the Catalogue records are published after an editor's approval switch on the Site settings → Workflow tab is on, a record is published only from review. The person who sent the record for review cannot publish it, and another catalogue editor publishes it. The audit log records the person who publishes as the approver.
The switch is off by default. While it is off, the person who sent the record for review can also publish it.
Releasing an accepted submission from production into the catalogue is outside this rule, because that step is already an editorial decision. Harvesting from DergiPark (Türkiye's national journal platform) and bulk import are not affected by the rule either.
Institutional content
If the Institutional content is published after review switch on the same tab is on, pages, policies and guides are published or scheduled only from review. The person who sent the content for review cannot publish it. Another editor with the publish permission publishes it.
ISBN requests
For ISBN requests the rule always applies, and no setting switches it off. A person who prepared the request, edited it after the last approval, took it back to draft or sent it for approval cannot approve the same request. The system administrator role does not carry the approval permission. An administrator who serves on the publishing board is given the Publishing board role as well.