OPEN IN ACTION

Vrushali Dandawate Librarian, AISSMS College of Engineering

DOAJ Ambassador Indiavsdandawate@aissmscoe.com, vrushali@doaj.org

What is Open Access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B579LlMi0Q4

KNOW ABOUT DOAJ (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKmYXUepgs&feature=youtu.be

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Applyhttps://doaj.org/

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

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

DOAJ wouldn’t be here for you

without the support of our members and

sponsors!

Criteria for Inclusion of Journal in DOAJ Database

Publisher/EditorApplies

1. Reject2. Approve

3. Approve & Seal

Feedback toPublisher/Editor

DOAJ Main EditorFinal Decision

DOAJ Main EditorAssess/ISSN

DOAJ AmbassadorEvaluates &

Recommends

Evaluated

DOAJ Seal

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 articlespublished 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

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 articlespublished 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

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)

Journals included in the DOAJ (2)

• No embargo, full text immediately accessible withoutbarriers

• Print version can be made available at a fee• Adhere to Principles of Transparency and BestPractice Guidelines as far as possibleSee https://doaj.org/bestpractice

WHY TO PUBLISH IN OA JOURNALS KNOW ABOUT

QUESTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS

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

How Questionable Publishers Works

• Experts at manipulative spamming• Target young and emerging researchers• They mimic legitimate publishers in many

ways

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

Predatory identification

• Criteria• Lack of transparency (hiding

information conventionally given by publishers)

• Deception• Don’t follow industry standards

Introduction of DOAJ Ambassadors

KNOW YOUR DOAJ AMBASSADOR

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsPuOBfnbE