HERS SA Academy 8 September 2014: Workshop on Scholarly Journals

Part 1: Setting the scene

Part 2: Trends in Journal Publishing

Part 3: Where to publish & What to look for?

Part 4: Hosting Scholarly Journals

Part 5: Journal, Article & Author Profile

Scholarly Journals

Ina Smith

HERS-SA Academy Workshop

8 September 2014

Scholarly

Journals Part 1 Setting the scene

Ina Smith

HERS-SA Academy Workshop

8 September 2014

Rationale behind Research

Investigate/explore a problem (challenge)

Report on findings

Report on solutions to problems (challenges)

Action by governments, World Health

Organization, etc.

A Research Problem is …

“a statement about an area of concern, a

condition to be improved, a difficulty to be

eliminated, or a troubling question that

exists in scholarly literature, in theory, or in

practice that points to the need for

meaningful understanding and deliberate

investigation.”

Univ. of Southern California Libraries

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx

Research Lifecycle

Food Crisis

“Today, around 21,000 children died around

the world.” (Shah, 2011)

Living Conditions

“Asia is home to two-thirds of the world's poor,

with about 700 million people in Asia Pacific living

on less than US$1 a day.”

Environment

“The pressures to destroy habitat for logging,

illegal hunting, and other challenges are making

conservation a struggle.”

Tobacco

“Poverty, world hunger - by diverting prime

land away from food production, damages

the environment and reduces economic

productivity.”

Global Warming

“It is the rapid pace at which the temperature

rises that will result in many negative impacts to

humans and the environment and this why

there is such a world-wide concern.”

Tell us more about your interest

in research …

Academic Publishing

Thesis (Masters & Doctoral)

Academic (scholarly/scientific) journal

Conference proceedings

Books & Chapters in books

Academic Journals

Peer-reviewed periodical in which

scholarship relating to a

particular academic discipline is

published

Serve as forums for the introduction and

presentation for scrutiny of new research,

and the critique of existing research

Philosophical Transactions of

the Royal Society (1665 - )

Peer-review Process

Instituted by Nature in 1967

Process of subjecting an author’s scholarly

work, research or ideas to the scrutiny of

others who are experts in the same field,

before the paper is published in a journal

Recommendation: Accepted, revisions

requested, rejected

Traditional vs E-journals

Before & after the Internet

Traditional: paper, manual workflow, slow

publication, slow dissemination

E-journals: online, electronic workflow, fast

review fast publication, fast dissemination

– costs came down

Resulted in Open Access movement –

more on OA journals later …

Business Models

Subscription Access (author & reader

pay)

Article-Processing Charges (APC’s) (author

pays) – also paid for by institutional OA

funds – policy issues

Open Access (author pays) – cost much

lower than APC’s

Workflow

Author

Editor

Reviewers (Peer-review)

Proofreader

Copyeditor

Layout Editor

Editor published issue

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full

Journal Facts & Figures Genamics JournalSeek (102 139 titles)

http://journalseek.net/

Thomson Reuters Master Journal List (16 970 titles) http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER

Scopus SCImago Journal & Country Rank (29 385 titles) http://www.scimagojr.com/

e-journals.org http://www.e-journals.org/

JURN Directory (3 000 titles) http://www.jurn.org/directory/

Directory of Open Access Journals (9 979 titles) http://doaj.org/

DHET Accredited List (ASSAf)

DHET (ASSAf Criteria)(1) High national/international disciplinary

reputations/standing of the editor-in-chief/ associate editors/members of the editorial board?

A high/good (general/average) quality of the articles accepted/published?

A (contextually) adequate/good number of articles per annum?

An (adequate/good) sample of the best work done in the country in the discipline/field?

DHET (ASSAf Criteria)(2)

A focus on local/regional kinds of materials/problems?

Publication of articles by authors from across the country, and internationally?

Useful additional scholarly features like editorials, topical reviews, book reviews, scholarly correspondence, etc?

Proper (English-language) abstracts for all articles?

DHET (ASSAf Criteria)(3)

Suitable publication of errata?

Good citation practice?

Suitability as a general on-going stimulus

for local graduate students/young staff in

the discipline concerned?

Some kind of comparability with leading

international journals in the field

DHET recommendations

Determine the impact factor

for a journal (Journal Citation

Reports)

Scholarly

Journals Part 2 Trends in Journal Publishing

Ina Smith

HERS-SA Academy Workshop

8 September 2014

Open Access Journals

“Open access journals are scholarly journals

that are available online to the reader

without financial, legal, or technical barriers

other than those inseparable from gaining

access to the internet itself.“

Source: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

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Benefits of OA E-workflow, all activities & versions recorded

Reduced costs for all

Post peer-reviewed by all (comments) – transparent

Increase in impact– used, read, cited more

Accelerates the pace of research, discovery, innovation

All can benefit – democratic right - research should be open, so that all can work together and avoid disaster (see challenges)

Directory of OA Journals

http://doaj.org/

Early OA Initiatives

arXiv.org (1991) http://arxiv.org/

Journal of Medical Internet Research (1999)

http://www.jmir.org/

BioMed Central (2000 - ) publishes 250 titles

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to

Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

http://openaccess.mpg.de/319790/Signatories

Growth in OA articles

"Development of Open Access" by Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Björk B-C, et al. - Scientific article in PLOS ONE. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Development_of_Open_Access.png#mediaviewer/File:Development_of_Open_Access.png

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNJournals/list

Case Study: Audit of Journals

Crowd-sourced peer-review

“The problem with peer-review today is that

there is so much research being produced

that there are not enough experts with

enough time to peer-review it all.”

Stevan Harnad http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/08/21/crowd-sourced-peer-review-substitute-or-supplement/#author

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Peer-reviewed Scientific Video

Journal

http://www.jove.com

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EarlyCite (Emerald)

http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/

authors/writing/earlycite.htm

Researchers can access peer-reviewed

journal articles prior to official publication

4

Article of the Future (Elsevier)

http://youtu.be/1dXkmgkYuEg

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Publish articles one-by-one

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Universities hosting their own

7

2nd copy on Institutional

Repository

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http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

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Web page with proper URL

Look & feel – professional

Proper English & language

Proper referencing

Valid eISSN assigned by ISSN International

Centre

Established history of responsible reporting

High Quality Journal (1)

High Quality Journal (2)

Good quality articles detailing well

performed research

Contact details (incl. admin e-mail)

Editorial Team

Editorial Board (international & academic

affiliations)

Advisory Board

High Quality Journal (3)

Scope and Focus

Peer Review Process (must be an exhaustive double blind peer review process)

Publication Frequency

Open Access Policy – registered with SHERPA RoMEO

Digital preservation policy

Registered with DOAJ

High Quality Journal (4)

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

incl. plagiarism detection policy

Viper http://www.scanmyessay.com/viper-

plagiarism-scanner.php

PlagTracker http://www.plagtracker.com/

iThenticate http://www.ithenticate.com/

Copyediting & layout editing

Author Guidelines

About the Publisher

Previously published issues (Archive)

Copyright policy (under the Creative Commons

Licensing policies)

Journal history

Indexing

DOI prefix & doi for each article

Registered with DOAJ

High Quality Journal (5)

Scholarly

Journals Part 4 Hosting scholarly journals

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HERS-SA Academy Workshop

8 September 2014

“Universities and researchers are coming under increasing pressure to demonstrate the wider impact that

their funded research has beyond the end of the

research project.” Manchester Univ. eScholar Blog (2012)

Small Journals “So, the smallest open access journal has a potentially larger audience than even the most popular pay walled journal because the work can reach anyone in the world with access to the Internet. When you couple this massive potential audience with the permission to republish and reuse via an open license, authors can maximize the impact of their work beyond the reach of any closed journal.” - Peter Suber

Source: World Bank Live Event Report: Open Access Policy and Development 2012, http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32839

Possible Stakeholders Vice-rector: Research

Research Office & IT

Intellectual Property Office

Individual Journals (SU editors)

Printer (SUNMedia)

Library

Open Scholarship Office (SUNJournals)

Faculty Librarians

Cataloguers

Typical Role (1)

Understand the research process

Promote OA

eCollection building

Disseminate & facilitate access to

information

Hosting of journal using OJS

Software upgrades

Training & support

Typical Role (2)

Acquisition of eISSN

Assigning metadata for indexing

Register with harvesters, search engines,

directories (DOAJ)

Digital Object Identifier (doi) & submission

of doi’s

Journal domain name e.g.

http://sajie.journals.ac.za/

Typical Role (3) Digital preservation & content archiving

Google Analytics

Creative Commons Licensing

Open Access policy

Register policy with SHERPA RoMEO

Gmail (admin) account for journal

Assist with application of journal impact factor – Thomson Reuters & SciMAGO

Advisory role – what makes a trusted journal

Journal Software

OJS (PKP)

ScholarOne (Thomson Reuters)

SciELO

Etc.

http://sajie.journals.ac.za

http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

OJS Tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicKnowledgeProj/

OJS Video Tutorials

https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_demo/

EPUB: http://calibre-

ebook.com

http://www.editors.ca/resources/eac_publications/pes/index.html

Professional Editorial Standards

http://aoasg.org.au/starting-an-oa-journal/

Starting an OA Journal

http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/oadwiki/Guides_for_OA_journal_publishers

Guides for OA Journal Publishers

http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/publishing/journal-

publishing-RI

OA Journal Publishing Resource Index

https://www.martineve.com/2012/07/10/starting-an-open-access-journal-

a-step-by-step-guide-part-1/

Starting an OA Journal

2011 - 2014

15 Active OA journal titles; 5 new in 2014

9 006 articles in 15 titles

993 319 downloads for 15 titles

Case Study: SUNJournals

African Public Procurement Law Journal

Trends in Nursing

Social Work

Missionalia

African Journal of Business Ethics

New Titles 2014

Increase in usage and visibility

Increase in submission of papers

Reduced costs with minimal expenses

(profit)

Since going online

Potential, possible, or probable

predatory scholarly open-access publishers

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Beall’s List

From traditional to OA online

Starting a new journal

Future issues - online, open access

Future issues & retrospective issues –

online, open access

Approaches

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Marketing Journals

Open Source Software, Setup, Google Scholar Site Map, URL’s, Metadata – international standards

Promote journal

Journal Level Metrics

Promote individual articles

Article Level Metrics

Promote individual researchers

Author Level Metrics

Source: http://www.infotechlead.com/2013/07/11/social-media-concerns-of-smbs-13196

http://www.youtube.com/user/JoVEJournalVideo

YouTube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals

Wikipedia

Article Cover Page

Measuring Impact

Article Metrics OJS Altmetrics Plug-in

OJS Altmetrics Plug-in

http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/364

OJS Altmetrics Plug-in

OJS Finding References

OJS Finding References

http://orcid.org/

http://orcid.org/

Google Scholar Google Profile

Google Profile

Crossref Cited-by Plug-in for OJS

OJS AddThis Toolbar for each article

Journal Metrics OJS Stats Tools

OJS Report Generator

OJS csv file

Google Analytics

ISI: See http://wokinfo.com/essays/journal-selection-process/ and

http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/info/journalsubmission/

IBSS: See http://www.proquest.co.uk/assets/downloads

/products/ibss_editorialpoliciesprinciples.pdf Contact:

Rebecca.ursell@proquest.co.uk

Scopus:http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-

overview#content-policy-and-selection

South Africa SCiELO: See

http://www.scielo.org.za/avaliacao/avaliacao_en.htm Contact:

scielo@assaf.org.za

Dept. of Higher Education and Training

Note on Academic Integrity (1)

Researchers should teake ownership of

their academic identity & integrity on the

web – be pro-active, e.g.:

Create a Google Profile (Google Scholar

& Google Citations)

Create an ORCID ID

Setup alerts and know who cites your

work and in which context it is used

Note on Academic Integrity (2)

Assign good quality metadata to OA research so that Google will return quality research at the top of Google listing

Conduct Google searches for your own research/name, and see where it has been mentioned

Know what is being researched in your field

Take action if needed

Scholarly

Journals Part 6 The Future

Ina Smith

HERS-SA Academy Workshop

8 September 2014

Interdisciplinary research will lead to a

different approach than publishing in a

specific journal title – also made possible

by Internet?

Referencing technique?

Thank you!

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ina@assaf.org

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