want to make your research oa so where do you publish?
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Want to make your research OA* so where do you publish? Make DOAJ your starting point for finding quality peer-
reviewed OA journals
Webinar for OA week 2016 on openaccessIndia.org Presented by Leena Shah, DOAJ Ambassador for India
27th October 2016
*OA- Open Access
Remove access & price barriers
Remove permission barriers
To make content of all scholarly articles freely available onlineGOAL
For a work to be OA, the copyright holder must consent in advance to let users “copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship” (Bethesda, Berlin statements)
How do you participate in Open Access?
Green Route: 1. Submit paper to journal as
normal2. After it is selected you submit*
the final peer-reviewed copy to an open repository (e.g. your Institutional Repo). *Check the self archiving policy of the journal
3. Google can pick up the metadata of the article
4. Your article can be found by anyone from Google
Gold Route: 1. Identify a reputable OA journal2. Send your paper for peer review3. Upon acceptance – pay an
“article processing charge (APC)” to publisher if applicable.
4. Your paper is published in the OA journal.
Taking the Gold Route Find a reputable OA journal
DOAJDirectory of OA Journals [doaj.org]
subject specific
peer reviewe
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open access
APC or not?
journal license
country
DOAJ search filters and facetsLooking for reputable OA journals with no processing charges – use DOAJ to find them
Embed and share search results
DOAJ – get the green tick?
The green tick ("The Tick") is displayed against all journals that were accepted into DOAJ after March 2014 when DOAJ launched its new criteria for journals to be accepted into DOAJ. The new criteria require a higher level of compliance to best practices and publishing standards.
DOAJ Seal - the orange circle
• The orange circle refers to the DOAJ Seal is a mark of certification for open access journals, awarded by DOAJ to journals that achieve a high level of openness, adhere to Best Practice and high publishing standards. To receive the Seal, the journal must comply with the following 7 conditions:
• use DOIs as permanent identifiers;• provides DOAJ with article metadata;• deposits content with a long term digital preservation or archiving program;• embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;• allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY-
SA or CC BY-NC license;• has a deposit policy registered wíth a deposit policy registry;• allows the author to hold the copyright without restrictions.
DOAJ- browse subjects
DOAJ – for publishers
DOAJ- Criteria for indexing
Publishing best practices based on:- OASPA's Code of Conduct - Principles of Transparency
and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Basic requirements for entry into DOAJ• The full text of ALL content must be available for free and be Open Access without delay (i.e. no
embargo period). • A journal has its own dedicated website. No other service or product should be present under that
URL• A journal must have at least one ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) registered at issn.org. • Journal webpage must have clear navigation with links to a Current Issue, the Archive or Past Issues,
Search, Browse, the About page, the Editorial Board and Contact Us. • Editorial Board page must have: the name, affiliation and email address of the editor(s); the names
of the editorial board members. • exact type of peer-review must be stated clearly on the web site• A link to ‘Author Guidelines’ must be clearly present on the journal website• Journal must display clearly on its web site information about any charges for an author to process
or publish a paper. • The journal's Open Access policy must be clearly stated on the journal's web site • All the necessary journal business information pages i.e. the journal's aims and scope,
the editorial board, the instructions for authors, the description of the quality control system, the Open Access statement, the plagiarism policy, and the licensing terms) must be hosted on this same site
Evaluate OA journals
Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career. But with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? Follow this check list to make sure you choose trusted journals for your research. http://thinkchecksubmit.org/Reference this list for your chosen journal to check if it is trusted.•Do you or your colleagues know the journal?– Have you read any articles in the journal before?– Is it easy to discover the latest papers in the journal?•Can you easily identify and contact the publisher?– Is the publisher name clearly displayed on the journal website?– Can you contact the publisher by telephone, email, and post?•Is the journal clear about the type of peer review it uses?•Are articles indexed in services that you use?•Is it clear what fees will be charged?– Does the journal site explain what these fees are for and when they will becharged?•Do you recognise the editorial board?– Have you heard of the editorial board members?– Do the editorial board mention the journal on their own websites?•Is the publisher a member of a recognized industry initiative?– Do they belong to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) ?– If the journal is open access, is it listed in the Directory of Open AccessJournals (DOAJ) ?– If the journal is open access, does the publisher belong to the Open AccessScholarly Publishers’ Association (OASPA) ?– Is the publisher a member of another trade association?
Directories – OA and Free Journals• DOAJ (Directory of OA journals)
https://doaj.org/• OpenDOAR (Directory of OA Repositories)
www.opendoar.org• DOAB (Directory of OA books)
http://doabooks.org/
Disciplinary Archives• arXiv http://arxiv.org/• SSRN http://ssrn.com/en/• bioRxiv http://biorxiv.org/• ChemRxiv - announcement by ACS in Aug ‘16
Publishers & distributors• BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
Some popular OA resources• PubMed Central (PMC)
http://www.pubmedcentral.org/• SciELO
http://www.scielo.org/index.php?lang=en• Wiley OA journals
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals.html
• HighWire Press http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
• PeerJ https://peerj.com/• SAGE Open http://sgo.sagepub.com/
Databases and networksScienceOpenhttps://www.scienceopen.com/Digital Commons Networkhttp://network.bepress.com/
Source: 1. Open Access Resources. Libguides at University of St. Andres http://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/c.php?g=369375&p=24956542. Open Access Webliography. Adrian Ho and Charles Bailey. http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm
References• FC Choy (2015). Why is Open Access important to researchers?
[PowerPoint Slides]. Presented at Academic Publishing 2015, NTU Libraries, Singapore.
