The importance of Open Access (OA) was recently recognised by Algerian scientists, libraries and publishers. There is a need to develop a method for determining the quality of these journals and to help Algerian scientific journals to become more visible on the internet, thereby making them accessible and discoverable for the international community.

1. Open Access
in Algeria
Kamel Belhamel
DOAJ Ambassador - North Africa, kamel@doaj.org

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Budapest Open Access Initiative:
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free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose
What is Open Access?

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• 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
Why Open Access?

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What About Sharing?
• You don’t loose your work !
• More opportunities for Feedback
• Sharing leads to better Quality
• Sharing leads to more citations
• Sharing leads to reputation
• Sharing leads to more chances for innovation
• Sharing leads to more rapid advances in knowledge
• Sharing leads to reduced costs

5. The need for an OA Policy for Algeria
SndlSystème National de la documentation en
ligne
• More than 20 Pay database
• More than 30 Open access database
What has been done?

6. Open Access databases on SNDL

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O A J ?

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DOAJ is an online directory
that indexes and provides
access to quality open access,
peer-reviewed journals.

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- 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
What is the mission of DOAJ ?

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- 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
What is the mission of DOAJ ?

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Idea Design Implementation
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Rédacteur en chef de la
revue rempli le
formulaire
Triage
- Formulaire en double
- Revue avec faux ou sans
ISSN
- Revue questionnable
- Titre de la revue différent
à
celui enregistré à issn.org
- Expertise le formulaire
- Contacte le rédacteur de
la revue, si nécessaire
- Fait une recommandation:
Rejet ou inclusion
Managing
Editor
Rejet
DOAJ
Editor
Associate
Editor
Décision finale
Rejet ou inclusion
Evaluation process of journal application form

15. DOAJ SEAL
To qualify for the Seal the journal must:
• Have an archival arrangement in place with an external party (Question 25). 'No policy in place' does not
qualify for the Seal.
• Provide permanent identifiers in the papers published (Question 28). 'None' does not qualify for the Seal.
• Provide article level metadata to DOAJ (Question 29). 'No' or failure to provide metadata within 3 months do
not qualify for the Seal.
• Embed machine-readable CC licensing information in article level metadata (Question 45). 'No' does not
qualify for the Seal.
• Allow reuse and remixing of content in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC license (Question
47). If CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, 'No' or 'Other' is selected the journal will not qualify for the Seal.
• Have a deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory. (Question 51) 'No' does not qualify for the Seal.
• Allow the author to hold the copyright without restrictions. (Question 52) 'No' does not qualify for the Seal.

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