A webinar presented by the DOAJ Ambassador for Southern Africa, Ina Smith, on getting to know DOAJ, how to submit a quality application and some explanations around Best Practice and DOAJ's expectations in this area.
Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences
In the professional literature, the term consortia cover a great range of cooperation situation and expressions according to the different contexts and period they were formed and developed. It has long been a precept of librarianship; however libraries have not used it widely until about the 1980s. The prime reason of establishing a library consortium is to share physical resources between member organizations. Through consortia, libraries are coordinating their purchasing to offer the best quality and quantity of resources to their patrons at a lower cost and also to make them available on users’ desktops. “Consortium purchasing is assisting libraries to deal with the increasing pressure of diminishing budgets, increasing user demand, and rising journal cost”
Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences
In the professional literature, the term consortia cover a great range of cooperation situation and expressions according to the different contexts and period they were formed and developed. It has long been a precept of librarianship; however libraries have not used it widely until about the 1980s. The prime reason of establishing a library consortium is to share physical resources between member organizations. Through consortia, libraries are coordinating their purchasing to offer the best quality and quantity of resources to their patrons at a lower cost and also to make them available on users’ desktops. “Consortium purchasing is assisting libraries to deal with the increasing pressure of diminishing budgets, increasing user demand, and rising journal cost”
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
Web of Science and Scopus: Understanding the indexing systemDr. Sharad Chand
In this article, Ii is explained about the Web of Science and Scopus indexing databases and their quality measures. This provides a basic insight into the selection of a good quality journal for publications.
A presentation on Digital Library Software by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, India.
Defining the h index and the calculation process. Also the main advantages and limitations besides how to increasing the h index.
Dr. Hassan Najman MUHAMED
hassan.muhamed@uod.ac
The University of Duhok - Kurdistan region of Iraq
This PPT contain details of Z39.50 and useful for Library Science students. This protocol used for information retrieval and in the end list of different types of protocols are given.
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
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.
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
Web of Science and Scopus: Understanding the indexing systemDr. Sharad Chand
In this article, Ii is explained about the Web of Science and Scopus indexing databases and their quality measures. This provides a basic insight into the selection of a good quality journal for publications.
A presentation on Digital Library Software by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, India.
Defining the h index and the calculation process. Also the main advantages and limitations besides how to increasing the h index.
Dr. Hassan Najman MUHAMED
hassan.muhamed@uod.ac
The University of Duhok - Kurdistan region of Iraq
This PPT contain details of Z39.50 and useful for Library Science students. This protocol used for information retrieval and in the end list of different types of protocols are given.
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
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.
Les réalités de l'Accès Ouvert : comment les préjugés empêchent la transition vers un nouveau système
d'édition scientifique- Tunis 1-3 Dec
By Tom Olyhoek
Presentation by Dr Tom Olijhoek, Editor-in-Chief, at NEICON/ASEP Conference, May 17, 2016, Moscow, on the status of DOAJ post the shut-down of the reapplication project
Identified open access resources such as open access archives, open access books, open access journals, open access courseware, open access search engine and open source software and its actual usefulness in LIS teaching & learning process
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
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.
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
(in Spanish)
This is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto”
Presentation by Solange Santos from SciELO programme.
Open Access & Preprints for Scholars and JournalsAuthorea
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? Authorea & Scholastica address this question and more in this slideshow, which overviews:
- The history and benefits of preprints
- Recent OA mandates by governments and funding bodies
- Steps scholars and journals can take to support Green OA via preprints
- New OA publishing models journals are pioneering using preprints
This slide is prepare to share information on about OPEN Access, DOAJ and its work. this presentation done in National Workshop at AISSMS COE Pune "Doors are open :Know about Open Access"
Open Research comprises open access to the broad range of research outputs, from journal articles and the underlying data to protocols, results (including negative results), software and tools. Open Research increases inclusivity and collaboration, improves transparency and reproducibility of research and underpins research integrity.
This workshop focuses on the benefits of practicing open research for you as a researcher, to improve discoverability and maximise access to your work and to raise your professional profile.
By the end of the session you will:
• Have an understanding of the principles of Open Research
• Understand open licences and how they apply to publications, data and software
• Be able to apply key tools and techniques to increase the visibility of yourself and your research, including repositories, ORCID, social media and altmetrics
• Describe the different ways of making research and data available open access
Webinar by Dr. Vrushali Dandawate, Librarian, AISSMS College of Engineering and DOAJ Ambassador India. vsdandawate@aissmscoe.com, vrushali@doaj.org for the Open Access India Webinars during Open Access Week 2016.
Why Research Libraries supporting Open Access is vital to the achievement of ...ldore1
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) supports the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development, 2014 (which was a response/commitment to promote meaningful access to information as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals), which states that a right to information worldwide would be transformational. Access to information supports development by empowering people, especially marginalised people and those living in poverty.
In this talk there will be a discussion of the vital importance of the availability of Open Access research publications to improve access to information and knowledge to enable the fulfilment of the SDGs to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, encourage economic growth, and tackle environmental destruction and climate change.
There will also be discussion of the role Libraries have to play in supporting Open Access at a national and local level, the options for publishing Open Access and the challenges.
Finally, the tools available to measure what proportion of your institutions papers are available as Open Access and what proportion are covering SDG topics will be demonstrated. These Tools will include Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and Altmetrics Explorer.
Publication Strategy: Helping Academics to Increase the Impact of their Res...Fintan Bracken
This presentation was given at the CONUL / ANLTC Seminar "Supporting the activities of your research community – issues and initiatives" Royal Irish Academy, Dublin in December 2014.The talk looked at methods of helping researchers to improve the impact of their research.
OA discussion at BILETA 2017, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, focusing on legal journal publication. Co-authored with Catherine Easton and Abhilash Hair
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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
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5th Annual Conference of Asian Council of Science Editors [ACSE]
Dubai, 21-22 March 2018 [https://theacse.com/acseconference.php]
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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.
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Introduction to the Directory of Open Access Journals
1. Introduction to the
Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ)
Presented by
Tom Olijhoek DOAJ Editor-in-Chief tom@doaj.org
Ina Smith DOAJ Ambassador ina@doaj.org
Friday 12 August 2016
2. Agenda
• What is the DOAJ?
• What is Open Access? Who needs (Open) Access?
Why Open Access?
• Mission of the DOAJ
• Required information for inclusion in the DOAJ
• Application & Evaluation process
3. What is the DOAJ?
• Directory of Open Access journals
• Launched in May 2003, Lund University, Sweden – list of
300 titles
• Centrally, publicly and internationally available
community-curated database of high quality open access
journal titles across all disciplines (scientific/scholarly)
• Aim: to be the starting point for all information searches
for quality, peer-reviewed open access material
4. What is Open Access?
Budapest, Bethesda, Berlin Conferences 2002-2003
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/initiatives
5. Example DOAJ OA Statement
This is an Open Access journal which means that all
content is freely available without charge to the user or
his/her institution. Users are allowed to read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the
full texts of the articles, or use them for any other
lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from
the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with
the BOAI definition of Open Access.
7. Who Needs (Open) Access?
• Scientists/scholars not affiliated with institutions
• Students in (high/secondary) schools
• Physicians
• Health care workers/practitioners
• Patient groups
• And MANY MANY more!
8. Why Open Access?
Jack Andraka- Tapping into the hidden innovator: an open access story
How Open Access Empowered a 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough
10. Why Open Access?
• (State) funded research should be available to all
• More exposure
• More citations
• More review / control post-publication
• Better quality science
• More efficiency - less double studies
• Everybody can participate in knowledge creation
• More use of innovation potential
• And more …
11. DOAJ Mission (1)
• Curate, maintain, develop reliable source of online
open access (OA) scholarly journals
• Verify that entries comply with reasonable standards
• Increase visibility, dissemination, discoverability,
attraction of OA journals
• Enable scholars, libraries, universities, research
funders, others to benefit from information and
sources
12. DOAJ Mission (2)
• Facilitate integration of OA journals into library &
aggregator services
• Assist publishers & journals to meet reasonable digital
publishing standards
• Support transition of scholarly communication to a
model that serves science, higher education industry,
innovation, societies, the people
• Collaborate with interested stakeholders
• From an unsustainable scholarly communication
system to a sustainable scholarly communication
system
18. Defining a High Quality OA Journal
• No access charges for readers/institutions (users)
• Users are free to “read, download, copy, distribute,
print, search, or link to the full texts of articles
published in the journal, or use them for any other
lawful purpose" (See http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read)
• User cite/reference original source as always
• Peer-reviewed scholarly research articles as always
• Highly transparent, clear policies
• Licensing terms (CCL) & Copyright clear
19. Journals included in the DOAJ (1)
• Full Open Access (OA) (not Hybrid), peer reviewed
• One third scientific/scholarly publishing full text,
original research/review papers
• All disciplines/subjects
• Sources: academic, societies, government,
commercial, non-profit, private
• Level: researchers
• All languages (also where more than one applies)
20. Journals included in the DOAJ (2)
• No embargo, full text immediately accessible without
barriers
• Print version can be made available at a fee
• Adhere to Principles of Transparency and Best
Practice Guidelines as far as possible
See https://doaj.org/bestpractice
22. Journal Web Site (1)*
• Dedicated web site per journal – journal specific web
address - eg: http://www.samj.org.za/
• All journal content centrally available – not spread
over various web sites
• Do not mimic other journal web sites
• Web site clear, concise, easy to navigate, transparent,
up to date and correct content – high ethical and
professional standards
• Language & grammar usage correct, spell check
23. Journal Web Site (2)*
• Visible links to business information
• Avoid distracting, offensive, irrelevant, moving,
blinking advertisements
• Unique identifier:
• Journal level (web address, Online ISSN)
• Article metadata level (also DOI for each article)
• Author level (eg ORCID)
• Full text article level (pdf, html, xml, epub)
• ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
• Online ISSN*
• Print ISSN
24. Journal Content *
• Clear journal structure for easier navigation, indexing,
discoverability – less is more
• Publication date for each article
• Publication year (also per volume/issue if applicable)
• 5 articles per year
• Start & end page number per article
• Authors, affiliations, countries, ORCIDs
• Articles arranged in Table of Contents
• Search/Browse option
• Links to Current, Archive/Past Issues
28. Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
• Thomson Reuters JIF against ethics and principles of OA
• relates less and less to citation rates
• unrelated to individual article quality in a journal
• unrelated to quality of individual scientist publishing in a given
journal
• Display of IF information on journal web page discouraged
• DOAJ question: download statistics on article level
1. Corneliussen, S.T. (2016) ‘Bad summer for the journal impact factor’, Physics Today, . doi: 10.1063/PT.5.8183.
2. Lariviere, V., Kiermer, V., MacCallum, C.J., McNutt, M., Patterson, M., Pulverer, B., Swaminathan, S., Taylor, S., Curry, S.,
de Montreal, U., @@, A., mmcnutt and Nature, S. (2016) ‘A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation
distributions’, New Results, , p. 62109. doi: 10.1101/062109.
3. The demise of the impact factor: The strength of the relationship between citation rates and IF is down to levels last
seen 40 years ago (2012) Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/06/08/demise-impact-factor-
relationship-citation-1970s/ (Accessed: 11 August 2016).
29. Ownership & Management*
• Journal title unique – not confusing/misleading;
alternative/former titles; abbreviated titles
• Avoid using misleading information
• Each journal unique, journal specific policies
• All business information about journal available from
central web site for journal - not generic web site for
publisher
30. Ownership & Management*
• Journal Management
System/platform/host/aggregator eg: OJS, HighWire
Press, EBSCO, ScholarOne, SciELO SA, Sabinet, AJOL
• Publisher
• Country of publication
• Society or institution owning journal
31. Editorial Office & Editorial Team *
• Editor/Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor/Co-Editor
• Full names, Affiliations, Countries, Emails, ORCIDs
• Postal address of office, country
• Contact information: name/email/telephone
32. Governing Body*
• Editorial Board/Editorial Advisory Board
• Arts & Humanities allowed editorial review, 2 editors,
no editorial board
• Members to be experts in field/journal scope
• Full names, Affiliations, Countries, Emails, ORCIDs
33. Aims & Scope*
• Emphasis
• Discipline/s
• Kind of papers
• Kind of studies
• What does journal want to achieve
• Keywords to describe journal
34. Author Fees
• Article Processing Charges (APCs)?
• Article Submission Charges (ASCs)?
• Manuscript Handling Fees?
• Galley fees, page charges, colour charges, etc.?
• Per article (incl. any taxes if applicable) – not per page
• Waiver policy eg for developing country authors
• Clearly visible for prospective authors – also if
no charges apply*
35. Peer Review Process*
• Advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers/
experts in the field who are not part of the journal's
editorial staff
• Quality control rigorous
• Process & policies clearly described on journal's web
site
• Editorial/Peer - Blind/Double blind/Open
36. Instructions for Authors*
• Detailed style guide
• Description of quality control process (review)
• Copyright information
• Licensing information
• Plagiarism policy
• Instructions on how to submit an article
• Contact email address
37. Access & Usage
• Full text of all content available as Open Access, no
delay/embargo*
• How accessible is journal & metadata to the rest of the
world, harvesters/spiders (text mining), DOAJ
• Open Access for all articles, Choice Open Access (author),
Pay per View (reader)
• Journal specific OA statement/policy*
• Differentiate between OA statement – Copyright -
Licensing
38. Rights
• Recommend: author retains copyright without
restrictions
• Recommend: author retains publishing rights without
restrictions
• Recommend: no transfer of commercial rights to
publisher
39. Content Licensing
• Conditions for use
• Creative Commons License or other
• Clearly described on web site
• Licensing terms on all articles, all versions (html, pdf,
xml etc.)
• Embedded in article level metadata and machine-
readable
47. Deposit Policy
• Journal policy registered with deposit policy directory
• Describes policy of journal on how different versions
of articles published in journal can be shared online eg
to Mendley, repositories, personal web page and
more
• Deposit Policy Directories: Dulcinea, OAKlist, Heloise,
Diadorim, SHERPA/RoMEO
50. Ethics & Malpractice
• Indicate steps to identify & prevent papers where
research misconduct occurred
• Unethical
• Plagiarism (statement & similarity check tool)
• Citation manipulation
• Data falsification/fabrication
• See COPE Guidelines in dealing with allegations
• Plagiarism policy
51. Conflict of Interest
• Situation that has potential to undermine impartiality
of a reviewer because of possibility of clash between
reviewer’s self-interest and author’s interest
(http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/conflict-of-interest.html)
• Policy
52. Transparency with regards to costs
• Revenue sources (eg author fees, subscriptions,
advertising, reprints, institutional support,
organizational support, sponsors)
• Advertising policy, types of ads, decision making on
ads, ads linked to content or reader
behavior/displayed at random
• Marketing: appropriate, well targeted, unobtrusive
53. Publishing Schedule
• Clearly indicate periodicity
• Annually, bi-annually, monthly, bi-monthly, continuous,
etc.
• Average number of weeks between submission &
publication
• At least 5 articles per year
• First calendar year in which journal available as OA full
text
• No interruptions
54. Digital Archiving & Preservation
• Electronic backup
• Cloud, disk, server, tapes, etc
• Preservation – Keepers’ Registry & PubMed Central
• Portico
• CLOCKSS
• LOCKSS
• PMC/PMC Europe/PMC Canada
• National library
• Open Journal Systems (OJS) – PKP Private LOCKSS network
• Not institutional archives or online publisher archive
55. Information on the DOAJ
• Home: https://doaj.org/
• About: https://doaj.org/about
• Publisher information: https://doaj.org/publishers
• Apply: https://doaj.org/application/new
• FAQs: https://doaj.org/faq
• Best Practice: https://doaj.org/bestpractice
56. Thank you for
assisting with
developing
and building a
database of
quality,
peer-reviewed
Open
Access journals!