Reflections

Abstract

This issue completes the 129th volume of the Journal of the Institute of Brewing. It’s been a transformational year with the journal being published online by the IBD with the papers open access and, importantly, free! In 2023, 16 papers were published (four per issue) originating from 10 countries. With every issue, the ‘in house’ process to publish the Journal has evolved. Indeed, this issue benefits from the simplification in the management and action of proof reading edits. Over time this will improve the KPIs from submission to publication. The collective process will also benefit from the authors of manuscripts scrupulously reading and applying the instructions to authors. As is timely, there are some New Year ambitions for the next year. These include testing the integration of the processes for submission, review and publication of manuscripts in the OJS/PKP workflow and directly linking the contents (and search) of the previous 128 volumes of the Journal.