This is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
Distinguishing between Questionable, Low Quality and Quality Indonesian Open Access Journals using DOAJ criteria and analytical tools.
March 25-17, Bali Indonesia
Tom Oijhoek, DOAJ Editor-in-Chief
ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES 13-22 Nov 2018
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore
By Leena Shah,
Managing Editor & Ambassdor, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
A Presentation made to Liber Europe's 'The Use and Generation of Scientific Content – Roles for Libraries' in Budapest, Hungary Sept 12th, 2016 by Lars Bjørnshauge.
In this presentation, Lars calls into question the use and success of Green Open Access, reminds us of the key role of librarians in the success of open access and calls on governments to support Gold Open Access.
This is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
Distinguishing between Questionable, Low Quality and Quality Indonesian Open Access Journals using DOAJ criteria and analytical tools.
March 25-17, Bali Indonesia
Tom Oijhoek, DOAJ Editor-in-Chief
ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES 13-22 Nov 2018
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore
By Leena Shah,
Managing Editor & Ambassdor, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
A Presentation made to Liber Europe's 'The Use and Generation of Scientific Content – Roles for Libraries' in Budapest, Hungary Sept 12th, 2016 by Lars Bjørnshauge.
In this presentation, Lars calls into question the use and success of Green Open Access, reminds us of the key role of librarians in the success of open access and calls on governments to support Gold Open Access.
By Leena Shah
Managing Editor & Ambassador, DOAJ
Focus Group on Ethics, Research Integrity and Open Scholarship
Organized by Taylor & Francis
New Delhi, 13th April 2018
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
Speaking as himself, rather than as the Managing Director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge gives his own views on what is wrong with the current state of publishing, open access, and the culture of prestige, tenure and promotion within academic institutions.
Presented on 23rd September 2015
Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
A presentation made by Judith Barnsby, DOAJ Publication Specialist, to the Library Publishing Coalition on 19th October 2016. Judith discusses why DOAJ is important to open access and which criteria DOAJ requires to be accepted into it.
Open Access - PeerJ Presentation to Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL)Peter Binfield
Slides from the PeerJ presentation to Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) on May 23rd 2013. As hosted by Mark Biggin. Originally titled “What's All the Fuss About Open Access? What Do I Need to Know, and How Does it Benefit Me?”
"Open Access: recalibrating the relationships" Neil Jacobs, DARTS4ARLGSW
Neil will focus on the lessons from the Jisc-APC pilot, and how the workflows around all forms of OA are changing the roles and responsibilities of information professionals within and beyond the HEI. There are new drivers (eg the HEFCE REF OA policy), new points of contact / transaction (eg Gold OA payments of various kinds), and new opportunities (eg to populate repositories). The talk will explore the workflows that are emerging as effective in addressing these changes, and their implications for all concerned.
A presentation, made by Lars to the Asian Council of Science Editors, on the problems facing academic publishing and what DOAJ is doing to push a change towards greater openness
A presentation made to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories on the current state of open access in the United States and how DOAJ is tackling issues of quality in open access publishing
12.10.14 Slides, “The SHARE Notification Service”DuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 10: All About the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)
Webinar 2: The SHARE Notification Service
Wednesday, December 10, 1:00pm ET
Presented by Eric Celeste, Technical Lead, SHARE
By Leena Shah
Managing Editor & Ambassador, DOAJ
Focus Group on Ethics, Research Integrity and Open Scholarship
Organized by Taylor & Francis
New Delhi, 13th April 2018
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
Speaking as himself, rather than as the Managing Director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge gives his own views on what is wrong with the current state of publishing, open access, and the culture of prestige, tenure and promotion within academic institutions.
Presented on 23rd September 2015
Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
A presentation made by Judith Barnsby, DOAJ Publication Specialist, to the Library Publishing Coalition on 19th October 2016. Judith discusses why DOAJ is important to open access and which criteria DOAJ requires to be accepted into it.
Open Access - PeerJ Presentation to Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL)Peter Binfield
Slides from the PeerJ presentation to Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) on May 23rd 2013. As hosted by Mark Biggin. Originally titled “What's All the Fuss About Open Access? What Do I Need to Know, and How Does it Benefit Me?”
"Open Access: recalibrating the relationships" Neil Jacobs, DARTS4ARLGSW
Neil will focus on the lessons from the Jisc-APC pilot, and how the workflows around all forms of OA are changing the roles and responsibilities of information professionals within and beyond the HEI. There are new drivers (eg the HEFCE REF OA policy), new points of contact / transaction (eg Gold OA payments of various kinds), and new opportunities (eg to populate repositories). The talk will explore the workflows that are emerging as effective in addressing these changes, and their implications for all concerned.
A presentation, made by Lars to the Asian Council of Science Editors, on the problems facing academic publishing and what DOAJ is doing to push a change towards greater openness
A presentation made to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories on the current state of open access in the United States and how DOAJ is tackling issues of quality in open access publishing
12.10.14 Slides, “The SHARE Notification Service”DuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 10: All About the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)
Webinar 2: The SHARE Notification Service
Wednesday, December 10, 1:00pm ET
Presented by Eric Celeste, Technical Lead, SHARE
Trends in Open Access to Research Publications - Case Study of Oncology JournalsSimon Cotterill
A presentation about Open Access (OA) in research with a case study of journals in oncology and discussion about issues relating to OA and implications for Higher Education Institutions. This was a short paper presented at the OER14 Conference at the Centre for Life, Newcastle.
The Value of the Scholarly-led, Non-profit Business Model to Achieve Open Acc...REDALYC
The Value of the Scholarly-led, Non-profit Business Model to Achieve Open Access and Scholarly Publishing Beyond APC: the AmeliCA’s Cooperative Approach
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The value of the scholarly-led, non-profit business model to achieve Open Access and scholarly publishing beyond APC: the AmeliCA's cooperative approach
CILIP is the UK's library and information association. In this presentation to the London Museums, Archives and Libraries Group (MLAG), CEO Nick Poole explores CILIP's current position on Open Access alongside future opportunities and challenges.
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Open Science: for a Better Science
Tuesday 21/02/2017
Aula “Cesare Musatti”, Scuola di Psicologia via Venezia 8, Padova Italy. Publishing Open Access: who pays?
Dr Alma Swan, "Is Open Acess just another fad?"UQSCADS
Inaugural UQ Open Access Eminent Speaker Forum
Dr Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC
"Is Open Access just another fad?"
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Open Access: Increase the Visibility of your Scholarshipciakov
Presentation on the fundamentals of open access. Topics include the social, political and especially economic context, defining open access, green OA, rights retention, sci-hub, and the beneficiaries of open access.
By Leena Shah
Managing Editor, Ambassador for DOAJ
5th Annual Conference of Asian Council of Science Editors [ACSE]
Dubai, 21-22 March 2018 [https://theacse.com/acseconference.php]
Atelier, 3ème Colloque International sur le Libre Accès – ICOA’18
Novembre 28-30, 2018 - Rabat, Maroc
Tom Olyhoek1, Kamel Belhamel2, Florence Piron3, Hanae Lrhoul4
A presentation given by DOAJ's Operation Manager, Dominic Mitchell, at the 1 day conference Licensing and Open Access in Stockholm on 1st June 2018. The conference was organised by the National Library of Sweden.
The slides lay out DOAJ's philosophy of focussing on the positive and how DOAJ does a lot of reviewing and filtering so that users, especially authors, researchers and librarians, don't have to.
Event organized by The Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishers, The National Library of Finland and The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Helsinki Febr 6th 2018 by Lars Bjørnshauge
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Different objectives of journal Indexing Services in quality control of scholarly publishing: inclusiveness versus exclusiveness
1. Different objectives of journal Indexing
Services in quality control of scholarly
publishing: inclusiveness versus
exclusiveness
Tom Olijhoek DOAJ Editor-in-Chief tom@doaj.org
SPARC Africa Open Access Symposium
2-6 dec 2019
Capetown
South Africa
4. Two
Publishing
Systems
• The subscription publication system
• A shareholder economy dominated by major
Northern publishers
• Objective: maximize profit
competition
EXCLUSION
• The open access publication system
• A user-driven sharing economy
• Objective: to maximize the use and impact towards
the commons of knowledge, a resource to be shared
and preserved collectively
collaboration
INCLUSION
5.
6. Problems in Scholarly Publishing
Publishing System: Dominance of 5 Publishers
Lack of Price – Cost transparency
Quality Control and Ranking by Producers
7. “The commercial strategies that for-profit publishers have
adopted for open access are ravenous, exclusionary and
unsustainable. This is entirely contrary to the vision of open
access that AmeliCA supports.”
https://poynder.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-oa-interviews-arianna-becerril.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQDFHBJX7xI&feature=youtu.be
Arianna Becerril-García,
chair of AmeliCA:
8. Some statistics: this is what
academics allow to happen
• The two owners of Holtzbrinck are together worth €4.5bn.
• Elsevier generate €1 billion in net profit each year.
• Total revenue is estimated at around €10bn per year.
• Profit margins above 30% are fairly standard.
• About 70% of their revenue comes from public sources.
• The average amount we spend per article is between €4-5000.
• The true cost of publishing at scale is ~€400 per article.
• But it can be as low as around $2 per article.
Jon Tennant presentation
Copenhagen oct 2019
9. Publishing prices increase all the time
No relation between price and actual costs
Price linked to reputation / status /branding
Reputation / Status depend on ranking
Scholars want / need to publish in high ranked journals
Ranking is done by publishers
5 publishers dominate the scholarly publishing market
Price Control of Scholarly Publishing in the North
10. Price – Cost of OA Journals
This means that in an APC-OA world, total publishing expenditures are expected
to increase exponentially, as the number of articles increases and the price of
each article increases (http://bit.ly/2MFEkaL)
Khoo, S.Y.-S., 2019. Article Processing
Charge Hyperinflation and Price
Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to
the Serials Crisis. LIBER Quarterly, 29(1),
pp.1–18.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10280
According to Björn Brembs :
The picture of exponential increase in cost for APC
based publications
CPI consumer price index
HICP harmonized index of consumer
price
11. Plan S and
Price – Cost
Transparency
in OA Journals
• Plan S requires transparency
• Price should only be linked to actual
costs
• BUT
• Reputation / Status will continue to push
prices if system continues to be based on
ranking under the control of publishers
duly followed by researchers, funders,
universities
12. Securing high profits
Maintaining long term dominance
Ensuring publishing in ‘their’ journals
Continuation of existing evaluation system
based on ranking and publisher controlled quality assessment
THE NEW STRATEGY:
TRANSFORMATIVE AGREEMENTS
FOR OPEN ACCESS
SERVE NORTHERN PUBLISHERS
13. EXAMPLE OF
AGREEMENT
ELSEVIER -
HUNGARY
WHO IS HERE TO BLAME?
DOAJ is not against profits
but the exorbitant high
profits of some publishers
only serve the company
shareholders and not the
scholarly community nor
society as a whole
14. BUT:
• It is too easy to only blame
the publishers
• Even though we are critical of the ethics
of some publishers, we believe that they
are only exploiting conditions created by
academia, in the broadest sense
(researchers, research funders,
universities and governments)
• The last ones have the power to change
the conditions and are ultimately
responsible for the current mess!
……we have to help them change the
system and provide you with incentives
to share your work
15. We are running out of time
“The current model of scholarly publishing contains a disastrous blend
of Stockholm Syndrome and cognitive dissonance. Researchers are
helplessly locked into the system because of an over-reliance on journal
brands for their evaluations.
Every time we sign one of these so-called transformative contracts,
which often contain multi-year lock-ins, or lock-ins because of publisher
specific software, we lose the opportunity to create something more
just, sustainable, efficient and effective.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/transformative-open-
access-publishing-deals-are-only-entrenching-commercial-power
16. COST COMPARISON
Publishing system Average Cost / Article
Subscription $5000
Transformative deals $5000
Open Access with APC $1000
Open Access (Scielo, Redalyc) $400
J. Open Source Software $2,71
19. AMELICA as Alternative to PLAN S
Arianna BecerrilGarcía chair of Amelica
“democratize scientific knowledge
following a multicultural, multi-thematic
and multi-lingual approach”
“build a “collaborative, non-
commercial, sustainable and non-
subordinated” system in which control
is removed from commercial
publishers and handed back to the
academy” https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2019/11/06/latin-
americas-longstanding-open-access-ecosystem-could-be-
undermined-by-proposals-from-the-global-north/
23. Europe
“Especially striking is the widespread use of the
journal impact factor by 75% of respondents to
evaluate researchers and their output.”
https://eua.eu/resources/expert-voices/132-reviewing-
university-approaches-to-research-assessment-in-the-
transition-to-open-science.html
24. . In E Kraemer-Mbula, R Tijssen, M Wallace & R McLean (eds), Transforming Research Excellence.
Cape Town: African Minds.
Epistemic alienation in African Scholarly communication:
Open access as a Pharmakon.
Mboa Nkoudou, T H. (2019).
in Old Traditions and New Technologies:
The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Open Scholarly Communication.
Edited by Eve, M, Gray, J. Cambridge, MIT Press (in Press).
https://eve.gd/2019/06/07/old-traditions-and-new-technologies/
Cognitive injustice 4/9: Local knowledge is excluded or
disrespected
In the positivist-normative framework that dominates current science, knowledge that is
local, oral, practical, experiential or contextual is considered non-knowledge to be either
ignored or retranslated in scientific terms by experts.
Mboa Nkoudou, Piron et al. in Contextualising openness edited by Leslie Chan
Access to knowledge
you don’t need?
Depreciation of non-
Northern knowledge
systems
Reinforcing systemic
biases in power by
using International
evaluation frameworks
QUALITY OF CONTENT
25. AFRICA HAS A CHOICE
why adopt the Northern systems?
26. ALTERNATIVES ARE THERE:
DORA CONTEXTUALIZED
EVALUTION **
INFRASTRUCTURES /
IMPACT ON SOCIETY
LOCAL JOURNALS
PLATFORMS
General Recommendation
1. Do not use journal-based metrics,
such as Journal Impact Factors, as a
surrogate measure of the quality of
individual research articles, to assess
an individual scientist’s contributions,
or in hiring, promotion, or funding
decisions.
27. https://www.revues.scienceafrique.org/
The Grenier des savoirs is a
collective, collaborative and
decolonial project to support
the publication and open
access dissemination of
Southern knowledge,
particularly African and Haitian
knowledge, to fight against its
invisibility and poor
accessibility, while it is
essential to the well-being and
sustainable local development
of Africa and Haiti - and the
whole world
30. • THEY SHOULD BE INCLUSIVE
• THEY SHOULD HAVE TRANSPARENT CRITERIA
• THEY SHOULD BE GOVERNED INDEPENDENT OF
PUBLISHERS /BE COMMUNITY CONTROLLED
NO NEED FOR
“BLACKLISTS”
INDEX SERVICES
FOR QUALITY
JOURNALS ARE
SUFFICIENT,
BUT............
36. REASONS FOR LIST DIFFERENCES
2300 journals in SCOPUS or Web of Science but not in DOAJ
Many did not pass DOAJ criteria others did not apply
8000 journals in DOAJ but not in SCOPUS or Web of Science
Many were non-English, Global South and / or new journals
DOAJ IS MOST INCLUSIVE INDEXING DIRECTORY FOR OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
38. • IGNORE RANKING
• STOP REQUIRING PUBLICATIONS IN HIGH PROFILE JOURNALS
• PROMOTE COMMUNITY CONTROLLED PLATFORMS
• ESTABLISH MORE LOCAL LANGUAGE JOURNALS
• BE INDEXED IN DOAJ
• DEVELOPE NEW ASSESSMENT METHODS BASED ON
• Contextualization
• Social relevance
PROPOSED
ACTIONS
FOR
AFRICA
39. Thanks to :
All the Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers
and our Sponsors for the financial support to DOAJ!
Speed of Indexing in DOAJ and Indexing as such is independent of sponsor status of applicants
Gold Sponsors