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Moksha now has a feature to automatically notify authors when their submission status changes. This is useful, for example, if you wish to let authors know their submission is under review, e.g. if their status changes to "recommended." To find this feature, edit your submission type. You will find this feature under "Automatic Author Notification": Click "Add Author Notification" to add a new author notification: Choose the status and the form you wish to use. Note that … [Read more...]

When you receive your confirmation email from Moksha, you will receive a link to your submission's status page. This is your personal link. You may access the status of this submission using this link. No password is required. For authors, the status options are: in progress* This means your submission is in the Moksha queue and ready to be accessed by a reader, or that your submission has been read by a reader and is awaiting further review. closed Your submission has been … [Read more...]

Question: Does Moksha support charging submission fees for submissions? Answer: No, and we have no plans to. We at Moksha are firm believers in Yog's law, which states, "Money flows toward the writer." As such, submission fees do not abide by this law. Others have addressed this topic in broader detail: Nick Mamatas on why he's Against Submission Fees. Neil Gaiman on Yog's law. The Rumpus on Reading Fees. We understand that some journals and magazines use submission fees as their … [Read more...]

Sometimes you might wish to limit the number of submissions you receive based on certain criteria. Moksha lets you do this via its "Submission Throttling" feature. In Moksha, you can limit submissions in the following ways: After a submission is closed, force authors to wait a certain number of days before they can submit again. Users will see a warning message telling them they must wait X day(s) before submitting again. Default: no limit Limit the number of submissions a … [Read more...]

If you want to export your submission data, Moksha makes that easy. Please follow the steps below. Choose "Export" from the "Submissions" menu. Note that you must have permission to export data to view and visit this menu item. Place a check mark next to the publications you wish to export submission data. Then choose the start and ending dates. Finally, click "Download CSV" to save the data. The output is sorted from oldest to newest, but you can use any spreadsheet application to … [Read more...]

Let's say you are a publisher and you want to read your submissions anonymously, that is you want to read them "blind" and don't wish to see the author's name. Moksha can help you do that. Important note: Moksha cannot control what is in the submitted manuscript. Therefore, make sure you ask your authors to strip out their names and emails (or any identifying information) from their manuscript before submitting. Instructions Visit the configuration page for your submission type (Visit … [Read more...]

Problem: When you try to upload your document to Moksha and you receive an error similar to, "We currently only accept RTF, DOC, and DOCX files. If you are having trouble uploading your file, save your document as an RTF file and try again." Resolution: 1) Make sure your document is in one of the correct formats: RTF (Rich Text Format), DOC (MS Word 1997-2003), DOCX (MS Word 2003-Present). 2) If your document is not in one of those formats, you must convert the document first. The best … [Read more...]

When you submit to Moksha, you are asked for your word count, which is the length of your submission. Check the guidelines, but publishers usually request you round to the nearest 100 words. So for example if your submisison is 5124 words, you would enter 5100. If your submission is 6280 words, you'd enter 6300. Also, make sure that your word count is an integer. But do not add periods or commas: 5,100 (incorrect) 5100 (correct) 6.200 (incorrect) 6200 (correct) A publisher may set a … [Read more...]