13 Issue One, Two Thousand and Twenty-Five www.aadej.org FEATURED timeline and adapt to your specific requirements. Our team handles the entire setup and upload of historical content, helping to keep the workload minimal for your team. Step-by-Step Integration Process 1. Requirements & Data Gathering — We begin with a Zoom meeting with your key staff members where we tour ADA Commons and talk through the entire phased process. We gather your expectations and requirements and determine how the platform can best support your publication. 2. Design & Sandbox — Our team collaborates with Digital Commons to create a site that reflects your brand, including colors, logos, and layout. You will receive PDF design options via email for review and refinement. Once finalized, a non- public digital “sandbox” is built for you to test and offer feedback before it becomes discoverable by users. 3. Upload & Launch — The sandbox transitions to a live site, initially hidden while content and metadata are uploaded. There are no limits on how much or how little content you upload, and it does not all need to be completed before launch. Once ready, we make the site publicly accessible. We also recommend linking your ADA Commons page to your website for greater visibility. 4. Ongoing Maintenance — New issue uploads and site updates can be managed by your society or the ADA Library staff, depending on your preference. We offer tools and extensive training — live, written, and recorded — to ensure you have the necessary support. Our team remains available for ongoing assistance. The process outlined here can be completed in as little as two months, although most of our societies have required longer to proof and approve designs and deliver back content. Our team is on your schedule, not the other way around; we can easily pause or speed up when your priorities shift. Joining ADA Commons does not change your copyright status. ADA Commons is the host, but you retain copyright of all content archived in the IR and full editorial control. Watch Your Metrics Grow! ADA Commons provides robust analytics to track: • Download counts • Geographic reach • Referring websites • Citations • Social media and news mentions These insights are accessible via a dedicated administrator page and monthly emailed reports giving a variety of options for sharing with an editorial board, association staff, advertisers, etc. Authors also receive article-level metrics via personal dashboards and email updates. Metrics tracking is both simple and impactful. For example, the Journal of the Michigan Dental Association, the first association to join ADA Commons, has uploaded 387 issues dating back to 2019. In just 18 months, those issues have been read 30,339 times in 156 countries! Article Submission, DOIs, and Peer Review Digital Commons includes an optional, built-in system for author article submission, peer review
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