Evaluating journals in DOAJ Examples and problems 6 February 20141 Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office.

Evaluating journals in DOAJExamples and problems

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A journal´s way into DOAJSuggestion We receive a suggestion to include a journal,

either from editors or from the public. We check:

• Has the journal got a valid ISSN number? • Is there any information regarding editorial

board?

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• Are the articles available in full text? • Is there any information regarding Open

Access policy on the web site? • Does the journal execute editorial review

and/or peer review? • Finally, we check that there is a contact email

address, and that it is active.When all these things are in place, we send a

registration form to the editor.

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Verification Once we receive the filled in form, we check

the journal more thoroughly based on the information provided in the registration form.

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• Is it Open Access? From the BOAI definition of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

• Does the journal charge authors for publishing? If so, is there any information regarding this on the web site?

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• Is there information on the web site regarding the journal´s peer-review process, or the editorial review process?

• Is there an embargo (delay)? The printed version could be accessible before the online version, or the current issue could be subject to subscription while earlier issues are Open Access.

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• From which year are the full text articles available?

• Who is the publisher?• Country, language(s), key words

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Registration• The journal is then registered in DOAJ and

classified by the DOAJ staff according to Library of Congress´classification schema. The journal is immediately searchable and visible in DOAJ upon registration.

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Metadata and archiving• As a final point, we suggest to the editor that

he/she provides us with article metadata, in XML format. DOAJ is OAI compliant, and once the article is available in DOAJ, it becomes automatically OAI harvestable.

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Armenian Journal of MathematicsEthiopian Journal of Health DevelopmentEducation Sciences and Psychology African Journal of Health SciencesLatvian Journal of Physics and Technical SciencesLithuanian Foreign Policy Review Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences

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Peer review/editorial control:Journal of Physical SecurityThe first scholarly, peer-review journal devoted

to physical security R&D. So what is this? http://jps.anl.gov/v4iss1.shtmlAuthors from ed. board are ”not peer

reviewed”.

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Open access versus copyright:Yes to OA but the copyright notice says

something else: users are allowed to copy and print articles after the written consent of the editor.

Journal of Bioscience and Technology

Homepages:Kathmandu University Medical Journal

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Poor editorial boards:http://www.bentham.org/open/toentoj/EBM.htm

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poor publication:• http://www.bentham.org/open/toentoj/

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Ads:•http://www.vukrom.cz/obilnarske-listy/pdf-ol/obil-listy-1-2010.pdf•http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijevm/front.xml

•Journal of Qafqaz Universty More or less perfect.

Thanks for listening!

And now questions!

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