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Motivating and helping publishers towards best practice – the new criteria for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Lars Bjørnshauge
1. Motivating and helping publishers
towards best practice – the new
criteria for inclusion in the Directory
of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Presentation at the SciELO SA meeting, Cape
Town, July 29th, Cape Town
Lars Bjørnshauge
lars@doaj.org
2. Agenda
• Prestige and quality
• Elements in transparency and credibility
– Editorial ”quality”
– Peer-review process
– Openness/licensing
– ”Technical quality”
• How will DOAJ contribute to improved
transparency and credibility of OA-journals
3. Quality & Prestige
Quality is often understood to mean prestige
But
Quality is something separate from prestige
A journal can be of high quality without being
prestigious (as it is traditionally measured)
Good news for new or small journals because while
prestige takes a long time to achieve, quality can be
achieved immediately.
We need to redefine what we mean by quality
(credits to Caroline Sutton)
4. Quality & Prestige
Publishers provide a service to authors
Part of that service is to do what they can, so
the work can achieve its fullest impact.
What is impact then?
How can it be measured?
(credits to Caroline Sutton)
5. Quality & Prestige
• Impact begins with dissemination and discoverability.
• Publisher services:
– Indexing, persistent identifiers, metadata provision,
archiving, marketing etc.
• Measuring impact:
– Usage statistics, citations, media coverage, social media
coverage, storytelling about application of the work,
marketing etc.
• The digital environment has changed what can be
measured and this ought to have implications for our
understanding of impact
6. Quality & Prestige
Reach and impact are related to the quality of
the journal.
But maybe not in the way that we traditionally
have thought about this
Achieving prestige, impact and reach begins
with assuring quality
(credits to Caroline Sutton)
7. Open Access, then…
• The promises of open access
• OA can:
– remove access barriers
– reduce participation barriers
– create a truly global scholarly communication
system
– reduce the total costs
– increase the impact of research on research,
societies and the people!
8. Issues…
• This is not to say that OA is problem free:
• Many OA-journals does not live up to reasonable
– editorial standards
– technical standards
– ethical standards
• Many (OA) journals is underperforming in terms
the service they provide to their authors
• Some business models can exclude some
researchers.
10. OA-journals
• Should be much more transparent regarding
– The editorial process
– The peer-review process
– Rights (reader rights, reuse rights, remixing rights
etc.)
– The services they provide to the author, such as
• Archiving
• Identifiers
• Discoverability
11. We will help out!
• COPE, OASPA, WAME & DOAJ:
• http://oaspa.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing/
12. The Principles
1. Peer review process
2. Governing Body
3. Editorial team/contact
4. Author fees
5. Copyright
6. Identification of and
dealing with allegations of
research misconduct
7. Ownership and
management
8. Web site.
9. Name of journal
10. Conflicts of interest
11. Access
12. Revenue sources
13. Advertising
14. Publishing schedule
15. Archiving
16. Direct marketing
13. DOAJ
• Founded 2003 at Lund University – launched May
2003 with 300 journals
• Membership and Sponsor funding model introduced
2006.
• Situation 2010/2011:
• Increasing expectations as OA gets momentum.
• Difficulties in getting resources as expectations grow.
• As OA matures demands from funders and libraries
increase and become more differentiated and
advanced.
16. • IS4OA took over DOAJ January 1st 2013.
• We said we would:
– Respond to demands and expectations by
developing new tighter criteria for inclusion
– Reengineer the editorial back office work
– Invite “associate editors” to contribute to
evaluation of journals to be listed
17. Why tighter criteria?
• To create better opportunities for funders,
universities, libraries and authors to determine
whether a journal lives up to standards –
transparency!
• Enable the community to monitor compliance
• Addressing the issue of questionable publishers
or publishers not living up to reasonable
standards both in terms of content and of
business behavior.
18. Why tighter criteria?
• To motivate and encourage OA-journals to
– be more explicit on editorial quality issues
– be more explicit on rights and reuse issues
– improve their “technical” quality fostering improved
dissemination and discoverability
• To promote standards and best practice
• Lack of transparency and credibility hurts all OA-
publishers!
19. New criteria
• New tighter criteria address:
• “Quality”
• “Openness”
• “The delivery” or “Technical quality”
• They are much more detailed
• Publishers will have to do more to be included
• Criteria will be binary (either in or not in!)
20. New criteria
• The new application form:
• http://doaj.org/application/new
23. Editorial ”quality”
• QUALITY AND TRANSPARENCY OF THE EDITORIAL
PROCESS
• The journal must have an editor or an editorial board, all
members must be easily identified
• Specification of the review process
– Editorial review, Peer review., Blind peer review, Double blind
peer review, Open Peer Review, Other
• Statements about aims & scope clearly visible
• Instructions to authors shall be available and easily located
• Screening for plagiarism?
• Time from submission to publication
24. Editorial issues
Specify what kind of reveiw process is applied: Editorial review, Peer
Review, Blind Peer Review, Double Blind Peer Review, Open Peer Review
33. A delicate balance!
• Respecting different publishing cultures and
traditions
• Not primarily exclude, but rather facilitate and
assist the smaller journals to come into the
flow
• While at the same time promoting standards,
transparency and best practice
34. DOAJ SEAL
• Promoting best practice (anno 2014) – qualifiers for the
DOAJ SEAL:
• Archiving arrangement with an archiving organisation
• Provision of permanent identifiers
• Provision of article level metadata to DOAj
• CC-BY (embedded machine readable in article
metadata)
• CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
• Deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory
36. So!!
• Starting out in 2003 with some 300 journals
the DOAJ has developed into an important
service with some 10.000 journals.
• Now we are significantly upgrading the DOAJ
in response to increasing demand and hot
issues.
• We are now developing our back office
systems enrolling dozens of associate editors
from the community to
37. So!!
• The new application form and the fact that all
journals currently listed have to re-apply to
stay listed multiplies the workload with a
factor ten at least!
• We have developed our back office systems,
and
• We are now enrolling dozens of associate
editors from all over the world to help us.
• We introduce a three-tier evaluation process
38. three-tier evaluation proces
Managing
Editor
Associate Editors: reviewing applications, communicate with publishers,
recommend inclusion/rejection
Editors: allocating applications to Associate Editors, recommend
inclusion/rejection
Managing Editors: allocate applications to Editors & decide on
inclusion/rejection
39. Benefits of being listed!
• Important/extremely important benefits of being
listed:
• Increased visibility : 97%
• Increased traffic : 85%
• Prestige : 86%
• Certification : 87%
• Eligibility for support from OA-publication funds: 64%
• Better promotion : 80%
• Increased submissions : 72%
40. To conclude!
• We believe that the new application criteria will
improve the transparency and credibility of OA-
journals
• We will continue to contribute to the momentum
of open access publishing by
– carefully promoting standards, transparency and best
practice
– without losing the global view
– collaborating
• This will benefit all open access publishers!
41. But!
• ”upgrading” DOAJ is a major effort:
• major system development work
• implementing a new way of working – putting
associate editors to work
• we will only be able to do this, if we get more
financial support from the community.
• Please support the work we are doing!
42. Our ambition: DOAJ to be the
white list!
and make other lists superfluous –
that is:
if a journal is in the DOAJ it complies
with accepted standards
44. Thanks to
all the Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers
and our Sponsors for the financial support to DOAJ!
lars@doaj.org
45. Credits to the hard working team at DOAJ:
Sonja Brage, Rikard Zeylon and Dominic Mitchell and all
our incoming Assoicate Editors and our technical
partner Cottage Labs!
lars@doaj.org
46. Questionable publishers &
the Science sting!
• Recommended reading:
• Ethics and Access 1: The Sad Case of Jeffrey Beall
• Ethics and Access 2: The So-Called Sting
• Journals, “Journals” and Wannabes: Investigating
The List
• All from Walt Crawfords Cites & Insights,
Crawford at Large/Online Edition