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O P E N A C C E S 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

• A R T I C L E S A R E M O R E R E A D

• R E A C H E S A B I G G E R A U D I E N C E

• I S L E S S P R O N E T O B I A S

• 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

• L E A D S T O B E T T E R E D U C A T I O N

Reasons for Open Access

• DOAJ Directory o f Open Access JournalsO P E N A C C E S S J O U R N A L S O N L Y

• SCOPUSO P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S

• WEB OF SCIENCEO P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S

• NATIONAL LISTS

O P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S

INDEXING SERVICESfor quality control

• QUALITY OF PUBLISHING

• QUALITY OF THE SCIENCE

Assessing the Quality of a Journal

• DOAJ

• SHERPA/ROMEO

• CROSSREF

• ORCID

• ARCHIVING : e .g . LOCKSS

• PUBLON (reviewer platform)

Infrastructure Services

What is the DOAJ?

The only global index of

trusted, high quality, peer-

reviewed, open access

journals, from all academic

disciplines,curated by the

community

https://doaj.org/

FREE to register and FREE to use

DOAJ STRUCTURE

• DOAJ CRITERIA FOR QUALITY OPEN

ACCESS PUBLISHING•Principles of transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

•(DOAJ, OASPA, COPE, WAME)

Assessing the Quality of Publishing

WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN

ACCESS?

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.

Copyrights

• Clearly described on web site*

• Recommend: author retains copyright

• Recommend: no exclusive publishing rights

• Recommend: no transfer of commercial rightshttps://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/copyright-and-licensing-part-2/

Essential criteria

Content Licensing

• Clearly described on web site*

• Recommend:

• licensing terms on all articles,

all versions (html, pdf, xml etc.)

• embedded in article level metadata

• Creative Commons licensing

Essential criteria

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

DOAJ IDRC Funded

Ambassador Programme

Aims of the Ambassador

program

• Promote Open Access worldwide• Helping journals meet open access criteria• Organize meetings and webinars for education• Quantify status of open access in regions• Mapping the open access landscape in regions• Evaluate applications for inclusion in DOAJ• More complete access to open access journals worldwide• Provide help to researchers and institutes to recognize

questionable publishers

Global open access map

http://www.openaccessmap.org

Open access policies worldwide

(government level)

• Europe: publicly funded research open access by 2020• *China: no active government policy• *Japan: no active government policy• US : publicly funded research open access• Chili: publicly funded research open access• *South Africa: no active government policy• *North Africa: Algeria actively promoting open access• India: no active government policy• *Indonesia: plans for active promotion of open access• *Russian Federation: no active government policy

* DOAJ links with government funded organizations

Open Access policy in EU

• 100 % Open Accessin 2020

open data open science

Open Access policy in

Netherlands

All publicly funded research open access 2020 100% GOLD Open Access by 2024 Funding decisions from Dutch Research Organization ZWO (major

funder) not dependent on where or how much scientists publish(2016 Directive)

Universities demand and negociate fair open access agreements with major publishers

http://www.magazine-on-the-spot.nl/openaccess/

Open access policies worldwide

(institutional level)

Russian Academy of Sciences, Central Economics & Mathematics Institute

SOURCE:http://roarmap.eprints.org/280/

Open access repository policy

Open Access policy in Russian

Federation

• NEICON actively promoting Gold open access• DOAJ ambassadors helping journals to be listed in DOAJ• Most journals published by universities • 4671/6200 journals ’open access’ (2016)• 1338 journals in Cyberleninka (open access platform)• 195 journals in Elpub platform• 57/195 Elpub listed journals in DOAJ• 17 journals in SCOPUS

Cost of Publishingsource: VSNU the netherlands

Cost of Open AccessPublishing

• Situation is not transparant• What does a publication cost? (< €2000)• Open APC (info on basis of Freedom of Information Act)

https://treemaps.intact-project.org/

Cost of Open AccessPublishing

Source: vsnu the netherlands

• ’new’ Big Deals in the Netherlands (combining cost-free open access publishing and subscription based reading of non-open access titles) AMOUNTS PAID ?????

• Authors from Dutch universities can now publish open access in >8000 journals without additional costs

Friday, December 23, 2016. Springer and Dutch universities also close a 100% open access deal for 2017. Springer was late 2014 the first publisher to conclude a contract for 100% open access with the Dutch universities. It became a great

success.

Journal subscription costs before 2016 NL Universities

€ -

€ 2,000,000

€ 4,000,000

€ 6,000,000

€ 8,000,000

€ 10,000,000

€ 12,000,000

€ 14,000,000

€ 16,000,000

€ 18,000,000

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Source: http://vsnu.nl/nl_NL/f_c_kostenpublicaties.html

o T H E B A S I C S :

o P E E R - R E V I E W

o C I T A T I O N A N A L Y S I S

Assessing Quality of Research

Problems with Peer-review

Eisen JA, MacCallum CJ, Neylon C (2013) Expert Failure: Re-evaluatingResearch Assessment. PLoSBiol 11(10): e1001677. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001677

EvaluationsVary much too much

Fake peer review is a growing problem

Solutions fro better Peer-reviewpeer review platforms

o T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q U A L I T Y O F A J O U R N A L C A N N O T B E A S S E S S E D B Y T H E A V E R A G E C I T A T I O N S C O R E S O F A R T I C L E S

( T H E J O U R N A L I M P A C T F A C T O R J I F )

T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q U A L I T Y O F A N A R T I C L E C A N N O T B E A S S E S S E D B Y C I T A T I O N S A L O N E

Citations & Quality of Research

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

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eLife

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5

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20

25

30

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45

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EMBO J.

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60

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J. Informetrics

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60

70

80

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Nature

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50

100

150

200

250

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350

400

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Nature Comm.

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5

10

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20

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PLOS Biol.

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PLOS Genet.

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

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PLOS ONE

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Proc. R. Soc. B

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Science

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200

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800

1,000

1,200

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f pap

ers

Number of citations

Sci. Rep.

highly skewed distribution of citations

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/062109

San Francisco Declaration on Research Impact

http://www.ascb.org/dora/

It doen’t matter where you publish or how much you publish, research assessment should not be based on journal citation analysis like JIF or number of articles published

• T R A C E T H E S O U R C E O F D A T A

• M A K E R E S E A R C H C O N N E C T I O N S / N E T W O R K S V I S I B L E

• F I N D K E Y P A P E R S F O R S P E C I F I C T O P I C S ( O P E N C I T A T I O N S C O R P U S , P A R T O F I S 4 O A )

B U T :

• N O C O N C L U S I O N S O N I M P A C T F R O M A V E R A G E C I T A T I O N S C O R E S

• N O C O N C L U S I O N S O N Q U A L I T Y F R O M N U M B E R O F C I T A T I O N S

What can we do with Citations?

Blog.plos.org/biologue1104029017

Initiative for Open Citations I4OC

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 )

Article Level Impact Assessmentnot quite the same as ’Quality’

How DOAJ detects 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

* most often encountered problems in Russian Federation

Findings of Russian DOAJ ambassadors

• Publishers may have some good journals to build reputation

• problems with editorial board,plagiarism *

• Malpractice

fake publisher address, no peer-review

* see example: https://www.znak.com/2017-02-

03/za_chto_nauchnyy_zhurnal_iz_ekaterinburga_popal_v_novuyu_bazu_disserneta_i_teper_grozitsya_posadit_e”

Questionable publishers in

Russian Federation

Questionable publishers in

Russian Federation

Questionable Publishing Global Perspective

• NOT ONLY IN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

• Not AS HIGH AS OFTEN REPORTED

according to a study* by Walt Crawford the number questionable publishers

in 2014 was about 3275 publishing about 121,000 articles and not 420,000 (Shen and Björk ** reported 8000 journals and 420,000 articles!!)

* http://walt.lishost.org/2015/11/ppppredatory-article-counts-an-investigation-part-1/

**Shen and Björk. BMC Medicine201513:230

Questionable Publishing in Perspective

• Proportion of low quality journals is comparable between open access and subscription publishing

but it looks worse because Open Access journals are more visible

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 is comparable

*** Walt Crawfordhttp://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf

Q U E S T I O N A B L E P U B L I S H I N G I S A P R O B L E MI T I S N O T A P R O B L E M U N I Q U E T O O P E N A C C E S SI T I S M O R E E X P O S E D I N O P E N A C C E S S

S O L U T I O N F O R T H E P R O B L E M • B E T T E R Q U A L I T Y B Y P U B L I S H I N G O P E N A C C E S S• S T A N D A R D I Z E D Q U A L I T Y C O N T R O L• I N D E X I N G O F Q U A L I T Y J O U R N A L S• T R A N S P A R E N C Y O N C R I T E R I A U S E D• R A I S I N G A W A R E N E S S W I T H A U T H O R S

( T H I N K C H E C K S U B M I T )

Handling Questionable Publishers

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Our ambassadors in Russian Federation: Olga Kirillova, Maxim Mitrofanov and Natasha Popova,

all the Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers and our Sponsors for the financial support to DOAJ!

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