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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
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Scholarly
Journals Part 1 Setting the scene
Ina Smith
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Rationale behind Research
Investigate/explore a problem (challenge)
Report on findings
Report on solutions to problems (challenges)
Action by governments, World Health
Organization, etc.
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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
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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx
Research Lifecycle
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Food Crisis
“Today, around 21,000 children died around
the world.” (Shah, 2011)
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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.”
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Environment
“The pressures to destroy habitat for logging,
illegal hunting, and other challenges are making
conservation a struggle.”
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Tobacco
“Poverty, world hunger - by diverting prime
land away from food production, damages
the environment and reduces economic
productivity.”
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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.”
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Tell us more about your interest
in research …
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Academic Publishing
Thesis (Masters & Doctoral)
Academic (scholarly/scientific) journal
Conference proceedings
Books & Chapters in books
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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
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Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society (1665 - )
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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
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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 …
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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
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Workflow
Author
Editor
Reviewers (Peer-review)
Proofreader
Copyeditor
Layout Editor
Editor published issue
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full
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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/
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DHET Accredited List (ASSAf)
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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?
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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?
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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
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Determine the impact factor
for a journal (Journal Citation
Reports)
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Scholarly
Journals Part 2 Trends in Journal Publishing
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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)
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Directory of OA Journals
http://doaj.org/
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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
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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
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http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNJournals/list
Case Study: Audit of Journals
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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
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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
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2nd copy on Institutional
Repository
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http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
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Scholarly
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Scholarly
Journals Part 4 Hosting scholarly journals
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“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)
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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Journal Software
OJS (PKP)
ScholarOne (Thomson Reuters)
SciELO
Etc.
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http://sajie.journals.ac.za
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http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
OJS Tutorials
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http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicKnowledgeProj/
OJS Video Tutorials
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https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_demo/
EPUB: http://calibre-
ebook.com
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http://www.editors.ca/resources/eac_publications/pes/index.html
Professional Editorial Standards
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http://aoasg.org.au/starting-an-oa-journal/
Starting an OA Journal
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http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/oadwiki/Guides_for_OA_journal_publishers
Guides for OA Journal Publishers
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http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/publishing/journal-
publishing-RI
OA Journal Publishing Resource Index
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https://www.martineve.com/2012/07/10/starting-an-open-access-journal-
a-step-by-step-guide-part-1/
Starting an OA Journal
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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
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African Public Procurement Law Journal
Trends in Nursing
Social Work
Missionalia
African Journal of Business Ethics
New Titles 2014
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Increase in usage and visibility
Increase in submission of papers
Reduced costs with minimal expenses
(profit)
Since going online
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Potential, possible, or probable
predatory scholarly open-access publishers
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Beall’s List
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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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Scholarly
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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
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Source: http://www.infotechlead.com/2013/07/11/social-media-concerns-of-smbs-13196
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http://www.youtube.com/user/JoVEJournalVideo
YouTube
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals
Wikipedia
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Article Cover Page
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Article Metrics OJS Altmetrics Plug-in
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OJS Altmetrics Plug-in
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http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/364
OJS Altmetrics Plug-in
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OJS Finding References
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OJS Finding References
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http://orcid.org/
http://orcid.org/
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Google Scholar Google Profile
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Crossref Cited-by Plug-in for OJS
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OJS AddThis Toolbar for each article
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Journal Metrics OJS Stats Tools
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OJS Report Generator
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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:
[email protected]
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:
[email protected]
Dept. of Higher Education and Training
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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
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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
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Scholarly
Journals Part 6 The Future
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Interdisciplinary research will lead to a
different approach than publishing in a
specific journal title – also made possible
by Internet?
Referencing technique?
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