6th International Scientific and Practical Conference: WORLD-CLASS SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION -2017 April 18-21, 2017 tom@doaj.org Editor-in-Chief DOAJ

1. OPEN ACCESS DEVELOPMENTS IN
RUSSIA AND OTHER IMPORTANT
REGIONS IN THE WORLD:
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C O N F E R E N C E : W O R L D - C L A S S S C I E N T I F I C P U B L I C A T I O N
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T O M @ D O A J . O R G
E D I T O R - I N - C H I E F D O A J

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3. • A d v a n t a g e s a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s o f O p e n A c c e s s
• Q u a l i t y o f p u b l i s h i n g a n d q u a l i t y o f s c i e n c e
• i n f r a s t r u c t u r e s e r v i c e s
• W h a t i s t h e r o l e o f t h e D O A J ?
•T h e D O A J A m b a s s a d o r p r o g r a m m e
• P u b l i s h i n g c o s t s n o w v e r s u s c o s t s f o r 1 0 0 % o p e n a c c e s s s i t u a t i o n
• O p e n a c c e s s p o l i c i e s E u r o p e , N e t h e r l a n d s , R u s s i a n F e d e r a t i o n
• C i t a t i o n a n a l y s i s : i m p a c t f a c t o r I F
• C i t a t i o n a n a l y s i s : o p e n c i t a t i o n s I 4 O C
• I m p a c t m e a s u r e m e n t b y a l t m e t r i c s : D O R A
• H o w D O A J d e a l s w i t h q u e s t i o n a b l e p u b l i s h e r s
Presentation overview

4. O P E N A C C E S S . . . . .
• A R T I C L E S R E C E I V E M O R E C I T A T I O N S
• A R T I C L E S A R E M O R E R E A D
• R E A C H E S A B I G G E R A U D I E N C E
• I S L E S S P R O N E T O B I A S
• A V O I D S D U P L I C A T E S T U D I E S
• A R T I C L E S C A N B E M O R E E A S I L Y C H E C K E D
• D A T A L E S S P R O N E T O M A N I P U L A T I O N
• I S B E T T E R F O R A D V A N C I N G S C I E N C E
• L E A D S T O M O R E I N N O V A T I O N
• L E A D S T O B E T T E R E D U C A T I O N
Reasons for Open Access

5. • DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
O P E N A C C E S S J O U R N A L S O N L Y
• SCOPUS
O P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S
• WEB OF SCIENCE
O P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S
• NATIONAL LISTS
O P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S
INDEXING SERVICES
for quality control

6. • QUALITY OF PUBLISHING
• QUALITY OF THE SCIENCE
Assessing the Quality of a Journal

7. • DOAJ
• SHERPA/ROMEO
• CROSSREF
• ORCID
• ARCHIVING : e.g. LOCKSS
• PUBLON (reviewer platform)
Infrastructure Services

8. What is the DOAJ?
The only global index of
trusted, high quality, peer-
reviewed, open access
journals, from all academic
disciplines,curated by the
community
https://doaj.org/
FREE to register and FREE to use

9. DOAJ STRUCTURE

10. • DOAJ CRITERIA FOR QUALITY OPEN
ACCESS PUBLISHING
•Principles of transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
•(DOAJ, OASPA, COPE, WAME)
Assessing the Quality of Publishing

11. WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN
ACCESS?
The BOAI Definition
Open Access is:
a publishing system where 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.

12. Copyrights
• Clearly described on web site*
• Recommend: author retains copyright
• Recommend: no exclusive publishing rights
• Recommend: no transfer of commercial rights
https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/copyright-and-licensing-part-2/
Essential criteria

13. Content Licensing
• Clearly described on web site*
• Recommend:
• licensing terms on all articles,
all versions (html, pdf, xml etc.)
• embedded in article level metadata
• Creative Commons licensing
Essential criteria

14. What is a license?
• Licensing means to grant a third party (anyone else
except the right holder) the right to use a
copyright-protected work
• A license is a permission to use a work in specific
ways
• Licenses can only be granted by copyright holder
• Copyright holder can be author or publisher
COPYRIGHT AND
LICENCING

15. DOAJ IDRC Funded
Ambassador Programme

16. Aims of the Ambassador
program
• Promote Open Access worldwide
• Helping journals meet open access criteria
• Organize meetings and webinars for education
• Quantify status of open access in regions
• Mapping the open access landscape in regions
• Evaluate applications for inclusion in DOAJ
• More complete access to open access journals worldwide
• Provide help to researchers and institutes to recognize
questionable publishers

17. Global open access map
http://www.openaccessmap.org

18. Open access policies worldwide
(government level)
• Europe: publicly funded research open access by 2020
• *China: no active government policy
• *Japan: no active government policy
• US : publicly funded research open access
• Chili: publicly funded research open access
• *South Africa: no active government policy
• *North Africa: Algeria actively promoting open access
• India: no active government policy
• *Indonesia: plans for active promotion of open access
• *Russian Federation: no active government policy
* DOAJ links with government funded organizations

19. Open Access policy in EU
• 100 % Open Access
in 2020
 open data
 open science

20. Open Access policy in
Netherlands
 All publicly funded research open access 2020
 100% GOLD Open Access by 2024
 Funding decisions from Dutch Research Organization ZWO (major
funder) not dependent on where or how much scientists publish
(2016 Directive)
 Universities demand and negociate fair open access agreements
with major publishers
http://www.magazine-on-the-spot.nl/openaccess/

21. Open access policies worldwide
(institutional level)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Central Economics &
Mathematics Institute
SOURCE:
http://roarmap.eprints
.org/280/
Open access repository
policy

22. Open Access policy in Russian
Federation
• NEICON actively promoting Gold open access
• DOAJ ambassadors helping journals to be listed in DOAJ
• Most journals published by universities
• 4671/6200 journals ’open access’ (2016)
• 1338 journals in Cyberleninka (open access platform)
• 195 journals in Elpub platform
• 57/195 Elpub listed journals in DOAJ
• 17 journals in SCOPUS

23. Cost of Publishing
source: VSNU the netherlands

24. Cost of Open AccessPublishing
• Situation is not transparant
• What does a publication cost? (< €2000)
• Open APC (info on basis of Freedom of Information Act)
https://treemaps.intact-project.org/

25. Cost of Open AccessPublishing
Source: vsnu the netherlands
• ’new’ Big Deals in the Netherlands (combining cost-free open
access publishing and subscription based reading of non-open
access titles) AMOUNTS PAID ?????
• Authors from Dutch universities can now publish open access in
>8000 journals without additional costs
Friday, December 23, 2016.
Springer and Dutch universities also
close a 100% open access deal for 2017.
Springer was late 2014 the first
publisher to conclude a contract for
100% open access with the Dutch
universities. It became a great
success.

26. Journal subscription costs before 2016
NL Universities
€ -
€ 2,000,000
€ 4,000,000
€ 6,000,000
€ 8,000,000
€ 10,000,000
€ 12,000,000
€ 14,000,000
€ 16,000,000
€ 18,000,000
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Source: http://vsnu.nl/nl_NL/f_c_kostenpublicaties.html

27. o T H E B A S I C S :
o P E E R - R E V I E W
o C I T A T I O N A N A L Y S I S
Assessing Quality of Research

28. Problems with Peer-review
Eisen JA, MacCallum CJ,
Neylon C (2013) Expert
Failure: Re-evaluating
Research Assessment. PLoS
Biol 11(10): e1001677.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.10
01677
Evaluations
Vary much
too much
Fake peer
review is
a growing
problem

29. Solutions fro better Peer-review
peer review platforms

30. o T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q U A L I T Y O F A J O U R N A L C A N N O T B E
A S S E S S E D B Y T H E A V E R A G E C I T A T I O N S C O R E S O F A R T I C L E S
( T H E J O U R N A L I M P A C T F A C T O R J I F )
T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q U A L I T Y O F A N A R T I C L E C A N N O T B E
A S S E S S E D B Y C I T A T I O N S A L O N E
Citations & Quality of Research

31. Table 2: Percentage of papers published
in 2013-2014 with number of citations
below the value of the 2015 JIF.
Larivière et al. (2016)
eLife 8.3 71.2%
EMBO J. 9.6 66.9%
J. Informetrics 2.4 68.4%
Nature 38.1 74.8%
Nature Comm. 11.3 74.1%
PLOS Biol. 8.7 66.8%
PLOS Genet. 6.7 65.3%
PLOS ONE 3.1 72.2%
Proc. R. Soc. B 4.8 65.7%
Science 34.7 75.5%
Sci. Rep. 5.2 73.2%
Journal JIF
% citable items
below JIF
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
eLife
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
EMBO J.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
J. Informetrics
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
Nature
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
Nature Comm.
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
PLOS Biol.
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
PLOS Genet.
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
PLOS ONE
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
Proc. R. Soc. B
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
Science
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Numberofpapers
Number of citations
Sci. Rep.
highly skewed distribution of citations
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/
062109

32. San Francisco Declaration on Research Impact
http://www.ascb.org/dora/
It doen’t matter where you
publish or how much you
publish, research
assessment should not be
based on journal citation
analysis like JIF or number
of articles published

33. • T R A C E T H E S O U R C E O F D A T A
• M A K E R E S E A R C H C O N N E C T I O N S / N E T W O R K S V I S I B L E
• F I N D K E Y P A P E R S F O R S P E C I F I C T O P I C S ( O P E N C I T A T I O N S C O R P U S
, P A R T O F I S 4 O A )
B U T :
• N O C O N C L U S I O N S O N I M P A C T F R O M A V E R A G E C I T A T I O N S C O R E S
• N O C O N C L U S I O N S O N Q U A L I T Y F R O M N U M B E R O F C I T A T I O N S
What can we do with Citations?
Blog.plos.org/biologue
1104029017

34. Initiative for Open Citations I4OC

35. ALTMETRICS
T A K I N G I N T O A C C O U N T C I T A T I O N S , S O C I A L M E D I A ,
C O N V E N T I A L M E D I A ( N E W S P A P E R S , T V , V I D E O )
Article Level Impact Assessment
not quite the same as ’Quality’

36. How DOAJ detects questionable journals
• Low publishing quality
Journal name, website, fees, peer review*, publisher, ownership, volume of
articles, advertisements, prominent soliciting for editors
• Low scientific quality
focus, format, self-citations, plagiarism*
• Malpractice
false claims, hidden costs, spamming authors, wrong information
* most often encountered problems in Russian Federation

37. Findings of Russian DOAJ ambassadors
• Publishers may have some good journals to build
reputation
• problems with editorial board,plagiarism *
• Malpractice
fake publisher address, no peer-review
* see example: https://www.znak.com/2017-02-
03/za_chto_nauchnyy_zhurnal_iz_ekaterinburga_popal_v_novuyu_bazu_disserneta_i_teper_gr
ozitsya_posadit_e”
Questionable publishers in
Russian Federation

38. Questionable publishers in
Russian Federation

39. Questionable Publishing Global Perspective
• NOT ONLY IN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
• Not AS HIGH AS OFTEN REPORTED
according to a study* by Walt Crawford the number questionable publishers
in 2014 was about 3275 publishing about 121,000 articles and not 420,000
(Shen and Björk ** reported 8000 journals and 420,000 articles!!)
* http://walt.lishost.org/2015/11/ppppredatory-article-
counts-an-investigation-part-1/
**Shen and Björk. BMC Medicine201513:230

40. Questionable Publishing in Perspective
• Proportion of low quality journals is comparable
between open access and subscription publishing
but it looks worse because Open Access journals are
more visible
FACTS
• Not all subscription journals are in Scopus : only 10-20,000 of 100,000 (data Ulrich’s
Web)
• Not all open access journals are in DOAJ : only 8 -10,000 of 30,000 ***
CONCLUSION Percentage of Quality Journals is comparable
*** Walt Crawford
http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf

41. Q U E S T I O N A B L E P U B L I S H I N G I S A P R O B L E M
I T I S N O T A P R O B L E M U N I Q U E T O O P E N A C C E S S
I T I S M O R E E X P O S E D I N O P E N A C C E S S
SOLUTION FOR TH E P ROB LEM
• BETTER Q UALITY BY P UBLIS HING O P EN ACCES S
• S TANDARDIZED Q UALITY CO NTROL
• INDEXING O F Q UALITY JO UR NALS
• TRANSPARENCY ON CRITERIA USED
• R AIS ING AWARENESS WITH AUTHORS
(THINKCHECKSUBMIT )
Handling Questionable Publishers

42. Thanks to :
Our ambassadors in Russian Federation: Olga Kirillova,
Maxim Mitrofanov and Natasha Popova,
all the Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers and our
Sponsors for the financial support to DOAJ!

43. Thank you for your attention!
tom@doaj.org
lars
lars@doaj.org

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