This document discusses scholarly journal publishing in South Africa. It outlines the open access landscape at DUT and in South Africa more broadly. Several organizations that support open access journal publishing are mentioned, such as ASSAf, AJOL, and SciELO. The document also discusses criteria for quality scholarly journals from organizations like ASSAf and DOAJ. It concludes with recommendations to improve research output and the road ahead for open access scholarly publishing.
Texila American University (TAU), one among the fastest growing Caribbean Medical University has launched its E-journals in the Year 2012. Commonly entitled as Texila International Journal (TIJ), it renders a great opportunity for the researchers who seek academic excellence. Our aim always lies in going beyond borders in ensuring that high quality and informative journals are available to a wide range of audiences. All our journals are open access and the articles submitted will be available as open access to the public, journal articles published are licensed under, authors being the original owners of the copyright for the content published.
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Sessions Printemps de formation organisés par le CNUDST en collaboration avec Thomson reuters du 11 au 14 Avril 2016 en faveur de la communautés des chercheurs tunisien
Texila American University (TAU), one among the fastest growing Caribbean Medical University has launched its E-journals in the Year 2012. Commonly entitled as Texila International Journal (TIJ), it renders a great opportunity for the researchers who seek academic excellence. Our aim always lies in going beyond borders in ensuring that high quality and informative journals are available to a wide range of audiences. All our journals are open access and the articles submitted will be available as open access to the public, journal articles published are licensed under, authors being the original owners of the copyright for the content published.
Presentation by Lisa Norberg from K|N Consultant, during the seminar New Models of Knowledge Dissemination and Open Access in Canada, organised the 17/11/2015 by Érudit and CRKN.
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Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
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2. Agenda
• Open Access at DUT
• Scholarly Publication Landscape
• Open Access Scholarly Publication Landscape
• Alignment with Government Goals & role of ASSAf
• The road ahead
3. Open Access @ DUT
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access (Prof Ahmed Bawa, 20 May 2013)
• “We stand for something noble” (Prof Bawa)
• “Mission to make knowledge useful” (Prof Sibusiso Moyo)
• “Projects we engage in should have an impact”
• “Encourages the production of new knowledge”
4. Open Access Routes
•Green: Institutional Repository (IR) Submit a 2nd copy of research output (articles), theses, dissertations, data sets and more
•Gold: Open Access Journal Titles - Publish in OA journal titles - Offer OA journal hosting service Focus on ‘gold’ ….
5. Open Access Journals
•Peer-reviewed (traditional & ‘open’)
•Serve as forum for introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research & critique existing research
•Available online to reader without financial, legal, technical barriers
6. The Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, published in Italy, has been called a scam but it appears on the CVs of several professors at Unisa as the publisher of papers authored by them.
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Diane Parker, an acting deputy director- general in the Department of Higher Education and Training, said the publication was listed in Scopus, a database of academic journals.
9. SA Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
AOSiS
26
ASSAf
47
SU
20
AJOL
86
OASPA
Non-OASPA
HMPG 11
Sabinet
95
10. SA Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
http://doaj.org/
71
titles
11. Institutional Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
Example: Stellenbosch University (Sept. 2014)
Open Access
59
Subscription
47
Total
106
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNJournals/list
12. SA Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Software
AOSiS OJS
SU
OJS
AJOL
OJS
HMPG
OJS
ASSAf
SciELO
Support for
OJS & ScholarOne
13. ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Programme
SPP
Open Access Publishing
Access to Core Commercial Databases
Peer-review of SA Journals
Scientific Writing
National Scholarly Editors’ Forum
National Scholarly Book Publishers’ Forum
14. Towards a new quality assurance system in SA
2003: Policy and Procedures for the Measurement of Research Output of Public Higher Education Institutions
Encourage research productivity by rewarding quality research output (R 117 000,00 per article)
Hosting SA scholarly journals on SciELO - increasing visibility, accessibility & impact of research output – global recognition
Evaluating SA scholarly journals – improve quality
15. Access to knowledge resources (1)
•South Africa's higher education system is confronted with three major priorities:
–(1) to produce a highly qualified human resource base which is needed for national development,
–(2) to develop the next generation of academics to sustain and transform the system; and
–(3) to produce high-quality research and innovation outputs that can enhance the country’s global competitiveness.
16. Access to knowledge resources (2)
•All three priorities are absolutely dependent on access to papers published by other scholars, local and international, in leading journals.
•Many of these journals are high-cost, commercial titles published by large multi- national corporations.
17. Access to knowledge resources (3)
•The equitable model will be a more cost- effective and sustainable route for facilitating access to the intellectual resources required for achieving our higher education priorities.
•Without this, or the investment of billions of additional Rands in higher education, we are unlikely to succeed in developing an equitable, diverse human resource base on which to build the knowledge economy.
18. Important developments
To ensure continued quality assurance, visibility and accessibility of SA journals
•Certification of SciELO SA Collection
•Inclusion on Web of Knowledge platform
•Signing of MoU with DHET to do quality peer review of ALL SA journals
•Change DHET policy for automatic accreditation of SA journals
•Improved accreditation policy towards publishing of books & conference proceedings
19. Quality Scholarly Journals ASSAf Criteria (1)
Reputation/standing of Editorial Board members
Quality of articles
Issues/articles per annum
Representative of best work in country
Focus on local/regional problems
Author distribution – national/international
Author distribution – inter-institutional
Scholarly features
20. Quality Scholarly Journals ASSAf Criteria (2)
English abstracts
Errata
Citation practice
Presentation, layout, style, copy-editing
Stimulus for new researchers
Comparability with leading international journals
22. DOAJ Criteria (2)
Double blind peer-review process
Aims and scope
Instructions to authors
Plagiarism detection policy
Submission-publication period
Journal Open Access policy
Content licensing (Creative Commons)
Author rights
Deposit policy with deposit policy directory
23. More …
Web page and URL
Journal history
Journal metrics
Previously published issues
Ethics and malpractice statement
Information on accreditation and indexing
Researcher identities
Agreements
24. DUT Research Output - Recommendations
•2nd copy of research output in DUT IR
•Links from research report to items in IR
•Publish in OA DHET accredited journals
•Negotiate copyright with publishers
•Audit of DUT journal publications
•Host an OA journal service
•Data management
25. The road ahead …
Open Access Policy Article Processing Charges (APC’s) Peer-review & quality – elevate for all SA scholarly journals, change perceptions re OA Impact factor vs Open Access New trends (video journals, crowd- sourced peer-review, early cite, publish article immediately following peer-review)