Hindawi database open access journals

1. Database-Hindawi
Aparna S.

2. Hindawi
Launched- 1997
Headquarter- London
Country of origin-Egypt(Cairo)
Founder- Ahmed Hindawi &
Nagwa Abdelmottaleb
https://www.hindawi.com

3. Hindawi
 January,2021-John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announces the Acquisition of
Hindawi
 Hindawi’s CEO, who will continue to lead Hindawi as part of Wiley’s
Research business.
 Publishing partners
• GeoScienceWorld
• AAAS(American Association for he advancement of science)
• WILEY(Parent oraganisation since 2021)
• Combridge University Press
• SAGE Publishing
Purpose of partnership
1. Understand, anticipate and support need of publishing partner.
2. Retain editorial control and ownership
3. Reduce internal resources

4. Hindawi
• The world's largest fully open access journal
publishers
• Publication- Peer reviewed Scientific journal,
Scholarly monograph index, science citation
index
• Commercial publisher of scientific, technical, and
medical literature.

5. Hindawi
Accessibility
 Search Engine:
• All Hindawi article pages are optimised to perform as well as possible in search
results across all search engines, in all regions (Google, Bing, Baidu, etc.).
 Full text repositories
• Hindawi journals also appear in a number of full text repositories, where research
articles are made available in their entirety. E.g Pubmed central
 Available on Discovery tools and platform such as EBSCO Discovery Service,
summon or Primo.
 Abstracting & indexing
• Many of journals appear in the leading multidiscipline databases such as
scopus and Web of Science via inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded or
the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Also many journals that appear in subject-
specific databases such as EMBASE (biomedical research), INSPEC (physics and
engineering), MEDLINE (medicine), and Chemical Abstract Service (chemistry).

6. Hindawi
 Peer review
• The peer review process that takes place between submission and
publication, along with our screening processes and details on the article
types.
• When an author receives a reviewer report asking for revisions, they should
take each comment into account and provide a detailed response to each
item in their rebuttal letter. This will help to demonstrate to the editor how
the paper has been improved and will assist them in determining if the
paper is ready for publication
• 'Errata', 'corrigenda', 'retraction notices', and 'expressions of concern' are all
written by Hindawi’s editorial staff and do not typically undergo peer review.
• High editorial standards, ensuring all published manuscripts undergo an in-
depth peer review process.

7. Hindawi
 Social media & communication network
• Blog- Abstract
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Youtube
• Facebook
 Content alert(sign up)
 Archiving
• All of Hindawi’s content is archived in Portico, which
provides permanent archiving for electronic scholarly
journals, as well as via the LOCKSS initiative.

8. Hindawi
Discipline-
• Biological sciences
• Medicines
• Case Reports
• Physical sciences
• Social sciences & Education
• Mathematics, Engineering & Computer science

9. Hindawi
Creative common attribute licences(copyright)
(Authors who publish in Hindawi journals retain the copyright of their work, which is released under a “Creative
Commons Attribution License,” enabling the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of an article in any
medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.)
 Fully supports the Open Archive Initiative Metadata Harvesting
Protocol 2.0.
 Metadata for all published articles is available via the OAI-PMH
interface to interested Service Providers.
 XML content available for download as a single .zip file. This .zip
file is organized using a two-level folder structure, first by publication
year, then by journal.

10. Hindawi
Author, Editors, Reviewer
• An easy-to-use manuscript submission system, without manuscript formatting
requirements.
• Free of charge, full language editing report at point of submission and improve authors
manuscript prior to peer review.
• Dedicated editors who are active in their specific communities.
• Quick, efficient publication with full transparency on all publishing metrics and turnaround
times.
• Greater impact, reach, and visibility of research through open access.
• Retention of all ownership and copyright of published research.
• 10% discount on a wide range of author services from leading providers, to help make
authors manuscript the best it can be. But it cannot be affected for editorial or publishing
decision of journals.

11. Hindawi
• Journals
– Alphabetically arranged with journal metrics includes acceptance rate,
submission to final decision, acceptance to final publication, Citescore, Impact
factor, APC( Article processing charges)
• Article processing charges
– The article processing charges (APCs) charged by Hindawi Open Access
journals for accepted manuscript such as research article (APC free for Editorial,
Letter to the Editor, review article & Erratum ) Taxes may apply on qualifying
transactions. It varies on title of journals and its ISSN. Hindawi operates a
transparent waiver policy also
• Print edition
– Hindawi journals are freely available online, but print editions are also available
to purchase. These rates (in USD) include printed copies of all articles published
in a journal over a calendar year. Print copies of individual articles can also be
purchased directly on our article pages. Rates are varied according to the journal
title and its ISSN.
Thank you!

12. Reference
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210105005
201/en/Wiley-Announces-the-Acquisition-of-Hindawi
accessed on 7/9/2021
• https://www.hindawi.com accessed on 7/9/2021