Criteria for open access publishing and indexing in DOAJ
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The presentation outlines the criteria for open access publishing and indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), emphasizing the importance of quality and transparency in the editorial process. It details the characteristics of quality open access journals, including peer review, clear licensing information, and adherence to the BOAI definition of open access. Furthermore, it discusses the issues of reliance on traditional metrics like impact factor and advocates for a focus on the quality of published research rather than the quantity or prestige of publication venues.
Criteria for open access publishing and indexing in DOAJ
- 1. CRITERIA FOR OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING AND INDEXING IN DOAJ PRESENTATION AT J -STAGE APRIL 4-5 TOKYO TOM@DOAJ.ORG EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DOAJ
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- 3. • D i r e c t o r y o f O p e n A c c e s s J o u r n a l s ( s t a r t e d i n 2 0 0 3 ) • C e n t r a l l y , p u b l i c l y a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y a v a i l a b l e c o m m u n i t y - c u r a t e d l i s t o f h i g h q u a l i t y o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l t i t l e s a c r o s s a l l d i s c i p l i n e s • P r o f e s s i o n a l s t a f f a n d r e c e n t l y i n s t a l l e d a m b a s s a d o r t e a m o f p u b l i c a t i o n s p e c i a l i s t s i n m a n y r e g i o n s o f t h e w o r l d • I n c r e a s i n g l y u s e d b y f u n d e r s , u n i v e r s i t i e s a n d g o v e r n m e n t b o d i e s t o d e c i d e w h i c h s c i e n t i s t s / g r o u p s c a n r e c e i v e f u n d i n g • eg Science Europe (EU) requires scientists to publish in DOAJ, Scopus or WoS listed journals for EU funded research What is the DOAJ?
- 4. Science Europe Open Access
- 5. Centrally, publicly and internationally available community-curated list of high quality open access journal titles across all disciplines and languages The starting point for all information searches for quality, peer-reviewed open access material A hub for metadata for Open Access articles and journals What does DOAJ do?
- 6. DOAJ IDRC Funded Ambassador Programme
- 7. WHAT IS A QUALITY OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL? • What is Quality Publishing? • What is Quality Open Access? • What is Quality Science?
- 8. • The Delivery of Technical Quality • Adherence to best Publishing Practices WHAT IS QUALITY PUBLISHING?
- 9. The Basics COPE, OASPA, WAME & DOAJ: WHAT IS QUALITY PUBLISHING?
- 10. The Principles 1. Peer review process 2. Governing Body 3. Editorial team/contact 4. Author fees 5. Copyright & Licensing 6. Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct 7. Ownership and management 8. Website 9. Name of journal 10. Conflicts of interest 11. Access 12. Revenue sources 13. Advertising 14. Publishing schedule 15. Archiving 16. Direct marketing WHAT IS QUALITY PUBLISHING?
- 11. Editorial ”quality” QUALITIY AND TRANSPARENCY OF THE EDITORIAL PROCESS The journal must have two editors (Arts & Humanities) or an editorial board of 5 members, all members must be easily identified and have a good reputation Specification of the review process Editorial review, Peer Review, Blind Peer Review, Double Blind Peer Review, Open Peer Review, Other Statements about aims & scope clearly visible Instructions to authors shall be available and easily located Screening for plagiarism? Time from submission to publication WHAT IS QUALITY PUBLISHING?
- 12. WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN ACCESS? • Free and (almost) unrestricted access • Adherence to the BOAI definition • No Embargoes • No Hybrid Journals • Copyright ownership clearly described • Use of open access licensing like Creative Commons or equivalent
- 13. The BOAI Definition Open Access is: a publishing system where all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN ACCESS?
- 14. • A r t i c l e s o n l i n e f r e e t o r e a d = O p e n A c c e s s ? A r t i c l e s o n l i n e f r e e t o d o w n l o a d = O p e n A c c e s s ? • A u t h o r s c a n o n l y u s e a c c e p t e d o p e n a c c e s s a r t i c l e s f o r c l a s s r o o m u s e , p u t t h e m o n t h e i r o w n o r i n s t i t u t e w e b s i t e , m a k e l i m i t e d n r o f p r i n t s i s o p e n a c c e s s ? • A u t h o r s n e e d t o r e t a i n t h e i r c o p y r i g h t i n O p e n A c c e s s ? NO • O p e n A c c e s s n e e d s B O A I s t a t e m e n t o n j o u r n a l w e b s i t e , s a y i n g t h e a r t i c l e w i l l b e i m m e d i a t e o p e n a c c e s s , f r e e t o r e a d , d o w n l o a d , d i s t r i b u t e , p r i n t o r u s e f o r w h a t e v e r o t h e r l e g a l p u r p o s e A N D O p e n A c c e s s n e e d s l i c e n s i n g c o n d i t i o n s t e l l i n g w h o m a y u s e a r t i c l e c o n t e n t a n d f o r w h a t p u r p o s e s f o r i n s t a n c e C C - B Y , C C - B Y - N C , C C - B Y - S A • Common Misunderstandings on Open Access
- 15. Open Access needs: Legal Framework for Sharing • An Open Access Statement • Licensing conditions defining usage rights • Note that Sharing is NOT the same as: giving away • Sharing IS: improving your work by sharing it with others WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN ACCESS?
- 16. Copyright terminology • Intellectual property right copyright, patents, trademarks • Copyright note: ideas cannot be copyrighted • Publishing right part of full copyright • Fair use • License (definition) COPYRIGHT AND LICENCING
- 17. • Copyright for the author • OR Copyright Transfer and in BOTH THESE CASES: • Licenses defining open access usage conditions COPYRIGHT AND LICENCING
- 18. What is a license? • Licensing means to grant a third party (anyone else except the right holder) the right to use a copyright-protected work • A license is a permission to use a work in specific ways • Licenses can only be granted by copyright holder • Copyright holder can be author or publisher COPYRIGHT AND LICENCING
- 19. • Non profit organization • Legal framework for licenses (publications, music, video) • Not used for patents, or trademarks which are part of the broader intellectual property rights CREATIVE COMMONS
- 20. • Copyright for user • Or ….. copyright for publisher • Copyright OWNER grants usage rights through Creative Commons license COPYRIGHT & CREATIVE COMMONS
- 21. CREATIVE COMMONS The six variations of the CC Licences
- 22. • Copyleft is a license used for software and music, not in publishing • Copyleft is a type of license that attempts to ensure that the public retains the freedom to use, modify, extend and redistribute a creative work • Copyleft is not the same as Creative Commons license because ownnership is abandoned • In Creative Commons licensing there always is a copyright owner COPYLEFT & CREATIVE COMMONS
- 23. EXAMPLES JAPANESE JOURNALS NOT ACCEPTED IN DOAJ
- 24. EXAMPLES JAPANESE JOURNALS NOT ACCEPTED IN DOAJ
- 26. Must haves: • An Open Access statement • Comply with the BOAI definition • A peer-review process, and describe the kind of process • An editor/editorial board with clearly identifiable members • Licensing and copyright information • Aims and scope • Published a least 5 articles per year to qualify (DOAJ criteria) QUALITY OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
- 27. Recommendations • Unrestricted copyright for the author • No exclusive publishing rights • No transfer of commercial rights • Clear licensing conditions • Preferably use of Creative commons licensing • Embedded licensing information with articles • Link to underlying data • No mention of IF, instead use journal citation distribution plots QUALITY OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
- 28. DOAJ Seal (not required for acceptance in DOAJ)
- 29. o J O U R N A L C I T A T I O N A N A L Y S I S I S F L A W E D S O M E P R O B L E M S : oS E L F - C I T A T I O N , M A N Y A R T I C L E S I N S T E A D O F O N E , M A N Y A U T H O R S P E R A R T I C L E , A U T H O R C O N T R I B U T I O N , G H O S T A U T H O R S , J O U R N A L I M P A C T F A C T O R N O T R E L A T E D T O I N D I V I D U A L A R T I C L E Q U A L I T Y Assessing Quality of Research
- 30. o C I T A T I O N R A T E S A R E F O R A R T I C L E S N O T J O U R N A L S o T H E J O U R N A L I M P A C T F A C T O R I S N O G O O D Q U A L I T Y M E A S U R E o C I T I N G D O E S N O T N E C E S S A R I L Y M E A N R E A D I N G o M O R E I S N O T B E T T E R T H E D U T C H G O V E R N M E N T H A S I S S U E D A D I R E C T I V E T H A T I T D O E S N O T C O U N T I F Y O U P U B L I S H I N H I G H I M P O A C T J O U R N A L S O R I F Y O U P U B L I S H M A N Y P A P E R S , J U S T Q U A L I T Y C O U N T S Citation Based Metrics: SCI Wageningen UR Library
- 31. oT H E J I F I S H I G H E R W H E N O N L Y A F E W A R T I C L E S H A V E H I G H C I T A T I O N R A T E S o A V E R A G E C I T A T I O N S C O R E S I N J O U R N A L S S A Y N O T H I N G A B O U T I N D I V I D U A L A R T I C L E S o T H E J I F I S H I G H L Y B I A S E D T O W A R D S E N G L I S H L A N G U A G E P U B L I C A T I O N S o H I G H J I F ’ S C O R R E L A T E W I T H M O R E R E T R A C T I O N S Citation Based Metrics: JIF
- 32. Table 2: Percentage of papers published in 2013-2014 with number of citations below the value of the 2015 JIF. Larivière et al. (2016) eLife 8.3 71.2% EMBO J. 9.6 66.9% J. Informetrics 2.4 68.4% Nature 38.1 74.8% Nature Comm. 11.3 74.1% PLOS Biol. 8.7 66.8% PLOS Genet. 6.7 65.3% PLOS ONE 3.1 72.2% Proc. R. Soc. B 4.8 65.7% Science 34.7 75.5% Sci. Rep. 5.2 73.2% Journal JIF % citable items below JIF 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations eLife 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations EMBO J. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations J. Informetrics 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations Nature 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations Nature Comm. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations PLOS Biol. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations PLOS Genet. 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations PLOS ONE 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations Proc. R. Soc. B 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations Science 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+ Numberofpapers Number of citations Sci. Rep. highly skewed distribution of citations doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/ 062109
- 33. HEADLINES IN, SCIENCE, NATURE, THE SCIENTIST, PLOS IN 2016
- 34. ‘It is more important what you publish then where you publish’ Cameron Neylon ‘The relation between the impact factor and the quality of individual articles of a journal is very weak’ ‘The correlation of the number of retracted articles and the impact factor is very strong’ Bjorn Brembs ‘Sick of impact factors’ Stephen Curry We will no longer pay much attention to how much and where our scientists publish, only quality will count Secretary Sander Dekker, Ministry of Science & education NL http://bit.ly/WNzA1Z THE DEMISE OF THE IMPACT FACTOR
- 35. FOR PUBLISHERS: DO NOT USE IF FOR THE PROMOTION OF YOUR JOURNAL FOR AUTHORS: IT IS NOT IMPORTANT WHERE YOU PUBLISH BUT WHAT YOU PUBLISH FOR FUNDERS: DO NOT JUDGE SCIENTISTS ON WHERE THEY PUBLISH OR HOW MUCH THEY PUBLISH Too much is wrong with the JIF
- 36. CONTROL OF THE SCIENTIFIC QUALITY OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT: DOAJ, Scopus, WoS differences o NO RANKING Publishing Criteria, Peer-review, article structure, plagiarism control (DOAJ) info on altmetric scores (future) o RANKING Publishing criteria, Peer-review, Citation Analysis, Impact Factor, Citation Distribution, info on altmetric scores (in development) (Scopus, WoS)
- 37. San Francisco Declaration on Research Impact http://www.ascb.org/dora/
- 38. ALTMETRICS T A K I N G I N T O A C C O U N T C I T A T I O N S , S O C I A L M E D I A , C O N V E N T I A L M E D I A ( N E W S P A P E R S , T V , V I D E O ) RELATIVE CITATION SCORES C I T A T I O N I N D I C E S A D J U S T E D F O R S C I E N T I F I C F I E L D Article Level Impact Assessment LEIDEN MANIFESTO doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11 01/062109 DORA The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment doi: 10.1242/dmm.012955
- 39. OPEN ACCESS..... • E N A B L E S U S E F U L A L T M E T R I C S • A R T I C L E S R E C E I V E M O R E C I T A T I O N S • R E A C H E S A B I G G E R A U D I E N C E • L E A D S T O B E T T E R E D U C A T I O N • A V O I D S D U P L I C A T E S T U D I E S • A R T I C L E S C A N B E M O R E E A S I L Y C H E C K E D • D A T A L E S S P R O N E T O M A N I P U L A T I O N • I S B E T T E R F O R A D V A N C I N G S C I E N C E • L E A D S T O M O R E I N N O V A T I O N The Reality of Open Access
- 40. How we detect questionable journals • Low publishing quality Journal name, website, fees, peer review, publisher, ownership, volume of articles, advertisements, prominent soliciting for editors • Low scientific quality focus, format, self-citations, plagiarism • Malpractice false claims, hidden costs, spamming authors, wrong information Questionable Journals
- 41. Questionable Journals examples Publisher has a total of 141 journals Publisher has 700+ journals and organizes 1000 + ‘conferences’ Some Problems: -Peer-review -Plagiarism -Board -Quality -Impact Factors -Editors active with other Q journals (network?)
- 43. Questionable Journals The Sting 1 October 2013 February 2014 Are Open Access journals so much worse than subscription journals?
- 44. Questionable Journals The Sting 2 • Study published in Nature indicates malpractice in low-quality open access journals • DOAJ is recommended as one source to find good quality journals by the authors • Impossible for DOAJ, Scopus, WoS, JCR and other indexes to be completely ‘good’ • Extent of questionable publishing in open access in overrated also in this article because they use data by Shen and Björk that were proved wrong by a factor 3 in a detailed study of Walt Crawford looking at all the journals and not ust a sample (as Shen and Björk had done) March 22,2017
- 45. Questionable Publishing in Perspective • Not as frequent as suggested by the former Beall’s list according to a study* by Walt Crawford the number of questionable journals in 2014 was about 3275 publishing about 121,000 articles (Shen and Björk reported 8000 journals and 420,000 articles!!) • Proportion of low quality journals is comparable between open access and subscription publishing FACTS • Not all subscription journals are in Scopus : only 10-20,000 of 100,000 (data Ulrich’s Web) • Not all open access journals are in DOAJ : only 8 -10,000 of 30,000 ** CONCLUSION Percentage of Quality Journals in open access and conventional journals is comparable ad the problem of questionable journals is overrated * Source : http://walt.lishost.org/2015/11/ppppredator y-article-counts-an-investigation-part-1/ ** Source: Walt Crawford http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf Questionable Journals Shen and Björk. BMC Medicine201 513:230
- 46. Thank you for your attention! tom@doaj.org lars@doaj.org
- 47. Thanks to all the Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers and our Sponsors for the financial support to DOAJ!
- 48. DOAJ depends entirely on donations https://doaj.org/membership