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
By Leena Shah,
Managing Editor & Ambassdor, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
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
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.
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
By Leena Shah,
Managing Editor & Ambassdor, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
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
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.
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
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Event organized by The Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishers, The National Library of Finland and The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Helsinki Febr 6th 2018 by Lars Bjørnshauge
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
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In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
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
Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
Speaking as himself, rather than as the Managing Director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge gives his own views on what is wrong with the current state of publishing, open access, and the culture of prestige, tenure and promotion within academic institutions.
Presented on 23rd September 2015
International Workshop on
"Information Management Tools for Academic and Research Libraries", All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s
College of Engineering, Pune – 1
18 to 22 December 2017 Lars Bjørnshauge
Agenda
- Research Assessment and Reward systems – an obstacle for the implementation of Open Access
- Questionable publishers – and how to detect them
- Improving the quality of journals published in India
- Whitelists!?
International Workshop on "Information Management Tools for Academic and Research Libraries", All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s College of Engineering, Pune – 1
18 to 22 December 2017 Lars Bjørnshauge
Basic statements about the current Scholarly Communication System.
The promises of Open Access!
Where are we now with Open Access?
DOAJ and what we do!
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
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Event organized by The Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishers, The National Library of Finland and The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Helsinki Febr 6th 2018 by Lars Bjørnshauge
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
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In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
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
Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
Speaking as himself, rather than as the Managing Director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge gives his own views on what is wrong with the current state of publishing, open access, and the culture of prestige, tenure and promotion within academic institutions.
Presented on 23rd September 2015
International Workshop on
"Information Management Tools for Academic and Research Libraries", All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s
College of Engineering, Pune – 1
18 to 22 December 2017 Lars Bjørnshauge
Agenda
- Research Assessment and Reward systems – an obstacle for the implementation of Open Access
- Questionable publishers – and how to detect them
- Improving the quality of journals published in India
- Whitelists!?
International Workshop on "Information Management Tools for Academic and Research Libraries", All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s College of Engineering, Pune – 1
18 to 22 December 2017 Lars Bjørnshauge
Basic statements about the current Scholarly Communication System.
The promises of Open Access!
Where are we now with Open Access?
DOAJ and what we do!
Making Open the Default in Scholarly Communication, and the Implications for ...SPARC Europe
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for QQML 2016
in London, UK
24-27 May 2016
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Presentation on how DOAJ is striving to increase the transparency and credibility of open access publishing throughout research communities.
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Acceptance speech for Directory of Open Access Journals winning the Ugena prize, awarded by the Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
On November 25th and 26th 2013, Lars Bjørnshauge gave his 3rd presentation in a series of talks on the future of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The presentation was given at the '8th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing', in Tromsø, Norway and focussed on the issues of prestige and quality in open access publishing and what DOAJ is doing to tackle these issues.
Presentation delivered by cIRcle staff for graduate student series at UBC Library on Scholarly Rights and Responsibilities. Topics include publisher agreements, author rights, benefits of using cIRcle, UBC's digital repository .
No início de sua segunda década como a lista oficial de periódicos em AA em escala global, o Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) continuará a servir a descoberta, enfatizar as melhores práticas, colaborar para garantir interligação padronizada, informação sobre a licença, preservação a longo prazo. A apresentação irá destacar os desenvolvimentos atuais e planos futuros.
At the beginning of its second decade as the authoritative white list of OA-journals on a global scale, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will continue to serve the discoverability, emphasize best practice, collaborate to secure standardized interlinking, license information, long term preservation. The presentation will highlight current developments and future plans.
Al comienzo de su segunda década como lista blanca autorizada de OA-journals a escala global, el Directorio de Revistas de Acceso Abierto (DOAJ) continuará sirviendo con la capacidad de detección, enfatizará las mejores prácticas, colaborará para asegurar la interconexión estandarizada, la información de licencia, la conservación a largo plazo. La presentación hará hincapié en la situación actual y los planes futuros.
Open Research – an introduction. Presented by Judith Carr, Research Data Manager, Open Research Team, University of Liverpool Library. Session aims:
* To show how open research can involve the research lifecycle from the beginning to the end.
* To encourage you as researchers to recognise opportunities where you can be more open
Explore open access books - Springer Nature event in New York (2019-09)Springer Nature
In September 2019 Springer Nature held a researcher event exploring the topic of open access books. This slide deck includes presentation slides from each session:
1. Welcome (Bill Tucker, VP, Books, Medicine & Life Sciences, Springer Nature)
2. Why publish your book open access? (Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature) - slides 4-21
3. A funder’s perspective of open access books (Leslie Rutkowski, The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)) - slides 22-49
4. Tracking impact for open access authors: author services & tools (Christina Emery, Open access books Marketing Manager, Springer Nature) - slides 50-67
5. Author panel: Perspectives on publishing an open access book (Chair: Philip Getz, Senior Commissioning Editor, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy. Open access book authors: Daniel Hess (University at Buffalo), Juha Uitto (Global Environment Facility), Sophie Mitra (Fordham University).) - slides 68-71.
With the progress towards open science, scientific communication is facing a new wave of innovations towards more openness and speed of research publication which will deeply affect the way the peer review function is carried out and the overall role of journals in assuring quality and adding value to manuscripts.
Several initiatives are promoting the generalized adoption of open access preprints as a formal beginning stage of research publication, which has been common since the 90’s in the physics community. And, in the last decade, new ways to carry out the evaluation of manuscripts have emerged either to replace or to improve the traditional methods, which are widely criticized as being slow and expensive in addition to lacking transparency.
Quality nonprofit journals from emerging and developing countries have succeeded to follow the main innovations brought by the Internet. In addition to the technicalities of the digital publishing, there is a wide adoption of Open Access in the international flow of scientific information. The new wave of innovations that affect the peer review function and the changing role of journals pose new challenges to the emerging and developing countries in regard of scientific publishing. The adoption of these innovations is essential for progress of SciELO as a leading open access program to enhance scientific communication.
The scope of this workshop aims at an in-depth analysis and discussion of the state of art and main trends of the peer review function, the modalities of carrying it out as well as of the increasing adoption of mechanisms to speed publication such as preprints and how they affect and potentially renew the role of journals. These recommendations will guide SciELO policies on manuscript evaluation and on the adoption of preprint publications.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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1. Publish your work in Open Access!!
Presentation at the Open Access Roadshow
Schleswig-Holstein 14.11.19
Flensburg
Lars Bjørnshauge
lars@doaj.org
2. Agenda
• Why publish in Open Access?
• How can I identify good Open Access
Journals?
• About questionable journals
• How DOAJ helps journals make your work
visible and get impact
3. • Why publish in Open Access?
• Because others tell you to do so!
• Research Funders, Universities, Research
Centers, Governments etc. have declared that
they would like to see the research they fund
to be available in Open Access
4. • It all started with the Budapest Open Access
Initiative (2002)
• Declarations:
– Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in
the Sciences and Humanities (2003)
– Betheseda Statement on Open Access Publishing
(2003)
– and many more
– in general:
• soft recommendations
• allowing embargoes
5. • Over the years many organizations and
research funders have pushed for Open Access
– EU – framework programmes – FP7 – Horizon
2020 etc.
– Science Europe
– Various National Research Councils (incl. DFG)
– OA2020
– cOAlition S
6. Impatience
• Increasingly some of the important
stakeholders issue stronger Open Access
mandates – and they give preference to real
OA!
• They want to see real OA happen now
• Stronger requirements – no embargos – no
writing away copyright to the publishers,
extensive reuse rights etc.
7. • Universities, Research Funders &
Governments:
– increasingly demand real OA – from day one, with
extensive re-use rights
– OA to publications seen as part of the Open
Science/Open Scholarship agenda
– Are questioning current research assessment
practices (Impact Factor etc) and intends to
develop new models
10. • So, there is a stronger push that researchers
should publish their works in Open Access,
because
• it will benefit research, higher education, industri,
innovation, our societies and the people.
• So far though, not much monitoring for
compliance, no real sanctions for researchers that
do not comply.
11. • Why publish in Open Access?
• Because others tell you to do so!
• Because you have a moral duty to do so!!
• Lots of reasons why you do not publish in Open
Access
– It does not benefit your career
– You are not rewarded for publishing in Open Access
– You say you cannot find a relevant publishing channel
(a good Open Access journal)
– You cannot/will not pay to be published
12. • We have been discussing Open Access for
nearly two decades
• Significant progress have been made, but…
• It goes too slow!!
• It is a widespread notion, that the publishers
are to blame!
13. But…
• We should stop blaming the publishers
• They do what there are supposed to do:
–Exploiting the conditions offered to them
and (some of them) make extraordinary
good business.
• Those who have the power to change the
conditions are responsible for the current mess!
… and we have to help them change the system
to provide you with incentives toshare your work!
14. Obstacles
to Open Access
• Research Assessment and Reward systems
• ”Academic Freedom”
• Culture in the Academy
15. Research Assessment
• The single most important obstacle to a transition to Open
Access!
• Assessment is often based on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
and other journal level metrics are
– not telling much about the quality of the actual research
– subject to manipulation, gaming and fraud
• Researchers are NOT primarily rewarded for WHAT they
publish, but WHERE they publish
• Research assessment systems have to change
• And they are changing – away from focussing on ”prestige”
journals and the use of the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy
for quality!
16. What pays off in the current system??
• As a Researcher:
• Publish in quality prestige journals – go for the High Impact Factor
journals and you will be rewarded (promotion, tenure and grants)
• Don´t bother to much about whether or not
• your results are actually accessible for the widest possible
audience
• your data are archived and open
• your software is documented and available
• your research is actually reproducable
• For your career it doesn´t (so far) really matter that much!
• As an Institution:
• Attract the researchers with the above behavior and the institution
will get higher rankings and receive more grants
17. Research Assessment
• All over the world (and especially in Africa, Asia
and Latin America)
– Strong push to publish in ”high quality” (often
subscription)-journals
– Strong push to publish in ”international” journals
• Supports the system, that should be changed!
• Discriminates journals published in Non-English
language journals
• Supports questionable publishing practices
18. The Culture of the Academy
• The Culture of the Academy needs to change!
• The concept of Academic Freedom is often used as
an excuse for publishing in the “prestige” journals.
• It is the underlying logic of the invention of Green
Access and Hybrid Open Access.
• But Academic Freedom applies to what you are
researching, what you are investigating, the methods
you apply etc.
• Based on your agreement with your institution and
the grants you get, you will do your research.
19. The Culture of the Academy
• It is often argued that your decisions as to where
you publish, how you publish, the rights and
permissions you give to readers/users etc
belongs to your Academic Freedom.
• “It is my Academic Freedom to decide where to
publish”!
20. The Culture of the Academy
• It is often argued that your decisions as to where you
publish, how you publish, the rights and permissions
you give to readers/users etc belongs to my
Academic Freedom.
• “It is my Academic Freedom to decide where to
publish”!
• I disagree!
• Let me introduce a different concept:
• Academic Responsibility and responsible
researcher behavior!
21. Academic Responsibility
• Applies to how you share your research, your
findings, your data, your software!!
• We need stronger mandates from research funders
and research institutions
• Research funders and research institutions should be
very specific as to how they expect researchers to
disseminate their findings!
• Responsible researcher conduct is to share results,
data and software in the open and researchers should
be rewarded for that!
22. It should have been
open in the first place!
If your papers, your data and your
software are not in the open, it
should not count!
23. Who can change the system then?
• Not the Publishers – they are businesses, exploiting
the conditions offered to them.
• The research funders, university managements,
governments can change the system
– Change the reward and incentive systems
– Require publishing in the open
– Setting the conditions for the publishers
– Changing the culture in the academy
24. What is needed is …
• More and much stronger funder and institutional
mandates
• Radical changes in the research evaluation system and
incentives for researchers to publish in the open!
– Today researchers are rewarded based on Where they
publish, i.e. in which journals they publish
– Not based on What they publish, the actual content
– and not based on How they publish, whether it is
open and reuseable or not
• A cultural change in academia is what needs to happen!
25. The scholarly system I want to see
• Research results are immediately accessible
to everyone.
• Research is verifiable and reproducable.
• Research is evaluated based on its actual
impact - not based on the wrapper (the
journal title)
• Research findings are evaluated in the open
after dissemination.
26. This means That:
• Research will be disseminated in the open
with generous reuse permissions.
• Research Data will be archived and made
accessible.
• Software associated with research will be
documented and available as well.
• Research Evaluation is transparent.
27. And this means that:
• Researchers are rewarded
– not only based on citations, but as well for
– the societal impact of their research,
– documenting their data and software and make
it open,
– contributing to peer review etc.
• In short:
– Researchers will be rewarded for sharing
– Researchers will be rewarded for all what they do
28. Agenda
• Why publish in Open Access?
• How can I identify good Open Access
Journals?
• About questionable journals
• How DOAJ helps journals make your work
visible and get impact
29. DOAJ -It is all about…
Making Open Access journals more
attractive as publishing channels!
The mission of DOAJ is to help publishers do a
better job in making their journals attractive,
transparent publishing channels on a global
scale
30. How do we work?
• Journals apply via the application form
• The application form is available in 13
languages
33. The principles of Transparency and Best
Practice in Scholarly Communication
• The Principles are very much inspired by the initial draft of the
new DOAJ criteria, apply not only for Open Access publishing
and has developed into de-facto standards.
• https://doaj.org/bestpractice
34. The Principles
1. Peer review process
2. Governing Body
3. Editorial team/contact
4. Author fees
5. Copyright
6. Identification of and
dealing with allegations of
research misconduct
7. Ownership and
management
8. Web site.
9. Name of journal
10. Conflicts of interest
11. Access
12. Revenue sources
13. Advertising
14. Publishing schedule
15. Archiving
16. Direct marketing
35. How do we work?
• Journals apply via the application form
• So far DOAJ is not actively going out to solicit
applications
• Lots of information is provided to enable
journals to produce a good and detailed
application
• Applications are initially triaged
• We receive around 500+ applications/month
36. Must haves for journals to be listed:
• An Open Access statement
• Comply with the BOAI definition
• A peer-review process, and describe the kind of process
• An editor/editorial board with clearly identifiable members
• Licensing and copyright information
• Aims and scope
• Published a least 5 articles per year to qualify
37. Recommendations to journals wanting to be listed
• Unrestricted copyright for the author
• No exclusive publishing rights
• No transfer of commercial rights
• Clear licensing conditions
• Preferably use of Creative Commons licensing
• Embedded licensing information with articles
• No mention of impact factors
38. • Founded at Lund University, Sweden – launched May
2003 with 300 journals - since 2013 operated by
Infrastructure Services for Open Access (www.is4oa.org)
– a non-profit company registered in the United Kingdom
• Basic demand then:
• Just a list of Open Access Journals
• Gradually developing in to:
• Recognized by lots of universities, research funders and
governments as the authoritative go-to point for peer-
reviewed scholarly journals not based on the
subscription model
39. DOAJ – much more than
a list of journals!
• A global list of peer-reviewed Open Access journals – all
subjects and languages
– journals undergo evaluation based on a set of criteria
– 13.800 titles (October 2019)
• An aggregation of article level metadata
– Publishers upload article metadata into DOAJ
– 79% of the journals do so
– Currently 4.300.000 records
• All DOAJ services including reviewing applications
are free of charge
• ALL DOAJ data are free for all to use, download
and re-use
40. Agenda
• Why publish in Open Access?
• How can I identify good Open Access
Journals?
• About questionable journals
• How DOAJ helps journals make your work
visible and get impact
43. Our definition:
Questionable publishers is
publishers, who are not living up to
reasonable standards in terms of
content, services, transparency and
business behavior.
44. The Drivers
• Why are researchers publishing in
questionable journals?
– Ignorance – lack of attention to the faith of the
paper
– Aggressive marketing cheats researchers
– Publish or Perish – get something on my C.V. –
subito! – pays off!
– Research Assessment – decision makers counting
beans!
– Exclusion
45. Reducing the
attraction
• Research managers/funders/decision makers:
– Research assessment based on actual assessment
of the research!!
– OA-publishing mandates
– Lists of accredited publishing channels!?
• Professors/PI/research managers:
– Make Publishing Literacy an integral part of
(training in) Research Integrity
47. The 5 minute check
• Competent web-site?
• Mass e-mails asking for editors and submissions?
• In the DOAJ? – if not: worrying
• Usage statistics?
• Stable in the discipline?
• Misspelled journal titles?
• Journal launch dates – many at the same time?
• Empty shells- no/few articles?
• Check list from Gavia Library (the library loon) -http://gavialib.com/2012/04/assessing-
the-scamminess-of-a-purported-open-access-publisher/– april 2012
48. The 5 minute check
• Regularly publishing?
• Many “Edited volumes”?
• Quality of writing, copyediting and typesetting?
• Archiving arrangement?
• Editorial Board – identifiable?
• Other financial support – only relying on APCs?
• Relevant Advertising?
• Running many/expensive conferences?
49. How we spot them!
• How does DOAJ detect questionable
journals?
• Our approach is based on:
• the Principles of Transparency and Best
Practice in Scholarly Publishing
50. How we spot them!
How does DOAJ detect questionable journals?
• Low publishing quality
• Journal name, website, fees, peer review, publisher,
ownership, volume of articles, advertisements, prominent
soliciting for editors, ambiguous company address, many
journals and few articles
• Low scientific quality
• focus, format, self-citations, plagiarism
• Malpractice
• false claims, hidden costs, spamming authors, wrong
information,
51. and more….
• Inappropriate marketing practices
– Spam emails
• Journal titles with “International”, “American” or
“European”
• Very broad scope, multidiscplinary
• Fake impact factors
• Advertise very quick publishing
• Advertise a relative low publication fee
• No or little quality control of articles
• Low-standard peer review process or even don’t have
peer review at all
52. But!!
• It is the complete assessment of the
journal/publisher that forms the final picture.
• A minor set of shortcomings isn't enough
”evidence” to label someone a Questionable
Publisher.
• Shortcomings often based on lack of
knowledge!
• We are in it to help honest publishers do a
better job!!
56. Agenda
• Why publish in Open Access?
• How can I identify good Open Access
Journals?
• About questionable journals
• How DOAJ helps journals make your work
visible and get impact
61. The DOAJ core team
• Managing Director
• Operations Manager
• Project and Communications Manager
• Editor-in-Chief
• Senior Managing Editor
• 6 Managing Editors
• We are based in Sweden, United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Peru, China,
Singapore & Denmark
– And…
62. Volunteers and
Ambassadors
• 90+ Voluntary Editors/Associate Editors working unpaid a
few hours/week – distributed in editorial groups managing
20+ languages
• 20 Ambassadors recruited to
– Promote DOAJ
– Handle applications of journals to be listed in DOAJ
– Promote best publishing practice and
– Help identifying and spotting questionable and unethical
publishers
• Ambassadors are based in
– China, India, Russia, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Algeria, South Africa
and Mexico, Indonesia & Korea – covering Asia, Middle East,
Africa and Latin America
63. Funding
• DOAJ is independent and entirely dependent
on funding from the community
– Universities, university libraries and library
consortia can supports DOAJ with a yearly
membership fee - https://doaj.org/membership
– Smaller publishers can as well support DOAJ via a
yearly membership fee – https://doaj.org/support
– Larger publishers can sponsor DOAJ -
https://doaj.org/sponsors.
64. Funding
• 600 University libraries from 36 countries
• 17 Library Consortia from 13 Countries
• 10 Research Funders/Academies of Science
• 30+ smaller publishers
• 25+ Sponsors - publishers and aggregators
65.
66. DOAJ – some numbers (November 2019)
• Number of Journals in DOAJ: 14.000
• Number of Articles linked in DOAJ: 4.400.000
• Number of Countries represented: 130
• Applications rejected: 19,950
• Rejection Rate: 55%
• Number of new Applications /Month: >500
67. DOAJ – much more than
a list of journals!
• A global list of peer-reviewed Open Access journals –
all subjects and languages
– journals undergo evaluation based on a set of criteria
– 12.000 titles (September 2018)
• An aggregation of article level metadata
– Publishers upload article metadata into DOAJ
– 75% of the journals do so
– Currently 3.350.000 records
• All DOAJ services and data are free for all to
use, download and re-use
68. A Greta Thunberg on scholarly
publishing I
• To Research Funders and Universities:
• How dare you
– justify that the knowledge facilitated by taxpayer
money is not accessible to the public?
– allow the research you fund to publish behind a
paywall?
– allow researchers to write away their copyright?
69. A Greta Thunberg on scholarly
publishing II
• To Researchers:
• How dare you
– publish your work, which is funded by taxpayers,
in such a way, that your colleagues, the students
and the people cannot read and reuse it?
– Write away your copyright to publishers
70. And thank you for
listening!
Thanks to :
All the Library
Consortia,
Universities,
Research Funders and
Publishers
and our Sponsors
for the financial
support to DOAJ!