### Publication Workflow

_Component Description_: Publication Workflow captures expenditures of time by CDRS staff in posting solicitations for journal submissions, ensuring the journal platform successfully accepts them, that editors and reviewers can work with submissions as expected on the platform, and that they may be published to the site as expected once final galleys are received and approved by editorial. 

_Project Specifics_:  Publication workflow tasks completed prior to the journal launch have been captured under Platform Setup and are thus excluded from Publication Workflow. Similarly, the calculation of time and effort here attempts to separate out time spent with PMC and the article preparation vendor, which are likewise accounted for in corresponding categories

_Expense Overview_:  Publication workflow expenses in 2013, at 17.04 average monthly hours of Production time, were the highest seen since launch and are the highest expected (Figure \ref{fig:pubworkflowgraph}). By mid-2012, primary responsibilities for the publication workflow had been shifted to the CDRS Project Coordinator, a junior staff position, and overall hours committed to this work has been reduced although publication volume increased in the same stretch. Higher costs in 2012 may be attributed to extra work in training supervised staff, in continuing to establish and communicate a regular procedure, and in managing against platform problems that were resolved through subsequent development.