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The thesis is about the digitization of the Journal Scientific Marketing Management, its indexing and uploading to the open source software on Open Journal Systems of the University of Macedonia. Scientific Marketing Management is a Greek journal publication that has been suspended (1988-2013) and includes subjects and articles on leadership and merchandising. The purpose of this thesis is to thoroughly examine digitization as a subject, analyse its pros and cons, its stages and requirements and present case studies that have been carried out to date, through research and study. Organisations that have been funded, for the requirements of digitization will also be researched and any practices that can be implemented will be reviewed. In particular, an open source software will be investigated to understand how it can house such a project and promote it through the website of an academic library. As this particular thesis involves practical work through digitization on a large scale, the creation of entries and posting of content, the process approach contains a comparison with the existing bibliography. The understanding of which steps were correct and which were not, during the carrying out of the practical part. The main conclusion of this project is that detailed research is required prior to the beginning of digitization. Otherwise, many errors will emerge, which can be avoided. It was understood that the whole process of digitization is extremely time consuming. If the project was undertaken by two or more people, the process would be easier and quicker. I contributed to the enrichment of information sources for this particular academic library, by helping to support and facilitate both staff and end users, by digitizing part of its collection and this gave me a sense of satisfaction.