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"

1. OPEN IN ACTION
Vrushali Dandawate
Librarian, AISSMS College of Engineering
DOAJ Ambassador India
vsdandawate@aissmscoe.com, vrushali@doaj.org

2. What is Open Access
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B579LlMi
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3. KNOW ABOUT DOAJ (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKmYXUepgs&feature=youtu.be

4. What is the Directory of
Open Access Journals?
Presented by
Dom Mitchell DOAJ Community Manager
Doors Are Open: Know About Open
Access
21st October 2016, College of
Engineering, PUNE

5. Greetings!
• I am talking to you from Stockholm, Sweden
• I was born in the United Kingdom and moved to Sweden in
2012
• I speak English, Swedish and French.
• I have been the Community Manager for DOAJ since 2013.
• I wish you all a successful workshop!

6. What is the DOAJ?
• The Directory of Open Access Journals launched in May
2003, Lund University, Sweden with 300 titles
• Community-curated not-for-profit database of high quality
open access journal titles across all scholarly disciplines
• Now includes over 9000 journals and more than 2 million
links to OA articles

8. The DOAJ mission
• Curate, maintain, develop a reliable directory of online OA
scholarly journals
• Increase visibility, dissemination, discoverability,
attraction of OA journals
• Be the starting point for all information searches for
quality, peer-reviewed OA journal content
• Enable scholars, libraries, universities, funders, others to
benefit from freely available information

9. The DOAJ mission
• Help readers to find quality OA material
• Help authors to identify where to publish
• Help libraries to highlight OA resources to patrons
• Help funders to ensure compliance with mandates
• Help publishers to increase visibility and usage
• Help publishers to adopt best practice
• Help to build a better publishing system for all

11. Why do journals apply for indexing in
DOAJ?*
• Higher visibility for the journal
• Greater discoverability of journal content
• Demonstrates quality in journal processes
• Enhances reputation of the journal
• Attracts more authors
• Meets requirements of research funders
*Publishers’ Survey 2013

12. Requirements for inclusion in DOAJ
• Full (“gold”) open access - not hybrid
• Immediate access to all full text with no embargo
• Peer review
• Full text original research/review papers - not abstracts
• Primary audience is researchers
• Any disciplines/subjects
• Any languages

13. https://doaj.org/

15. Information on DOAJ
• Home: https://doaj.org/
• Publisher information: https://doaj.org/publishers
• Apply: https://doaj.org/application/new
• FAQs: https://doaj.org/faq
• Best practice: https://doaj.org/bestpractice
• Help: feedback@doaj.org

16. Our members
• Our members support the work of DOAJ through donations
• Over 150 libraries worldwide
• As yet, none from India
• Read more here: https://doaj.org/supportDoaj

17. DOAJ wouldn’t
be here for you
without the
support of our
members and
sponsors!

18. Criteria for Inclusion of Journal in
DOAJ Database

22. Publisher/Editor
Applies
1. Reject
2. Approve
3. Approve & Seal
Feedback to
Publisher/Editor
DOAJ Main Editor
Final Decision
DOAJ Main Editor
Assess/ISSN
DOAJ Ambassador
Evaluates &
Recommends

23. Evaluated
DOAJ Seal

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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)

28. 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

29. WHY TO PUBLISH IN
OA JOURNALS
KNOW ABOUT
QUESTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS

30. Questionable Publications
• Use the gold open-access model (author pays)
– Article processing charges (APCs)
• Conflict of interest: more papers accepted =
more income
• Not all OA journals are bad; not all traditional
ones are good
• Monetary transactions from authors to
publishers cause many problems

31. How Questionable Publishers Works
• Experts at manipulative spamming
• Target young and emerging researchers
• They mimic legitimate publishers in many
ways

32. How Questionable Publishers Works
• They lie; they are counterfeit publishers
• They are often one-man operations
• Author-oriented vs. reader oriented
• Customers include unlucky honest folks and
complicit folks
• Chiefly in Asia and Africa, but also many in the
UK, Ontario, Australia, and the US
• They also operate bogus conferences
• Journals with broad coverage

33. Predatory
identification
• Criteria
• Lack of transparency (hiding
information conventionally
given by publishers)
• Deception
• Don’t follow industry standards

35. Introduction of DOAJ Ambassadors

43. KNOW YOUR DOAJ AMBASSADOR
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsPuOBf
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