1. A Central Role for DOAJ in the Global Ecosystem of Open Access infrastructures
XJTLU-IPCC Open Access Symposium
Open Access Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
suzhou Oct 27, 2017
Editor-in-Chief DOAJ

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3. Presentation overview 内容提纲
The Role of Journal Indexing Services
Differences between various indexing services
Quality of Science: can scientific quality really be measured reliably?
drawbacks of citation analysis and ranking
DOAJ criteria focus on quality of publishing
DOAJ Services
The DOAJ Ambassador Programme
Worldwide political support for the DOAJ Index
Role for DOAJ as Gatekeeper for Quality Open Access Journals
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

4. The Role of DOAJ 基本任务
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
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

5. DOAJ BASICS 基本情况
Indexing all Open Access journals according to strict criteria
  Recognized by governments and international organizations
  Providing of a portal to search and access the full text of articles of about 10,000 journals in Open Access
  All DOAJ services are free
  The DOAJ is funded by its 'sponsors'
  The DOAJ is managed by a team of professionals, volunteers and ambassadors worldwide
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

6. OUR VISION 我们的愿景
Becoming the Number 1 Source of Information on open access journals and content in the global North and South
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

7. INDEXING SERVICES 数据库收录 for quality control
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS ONLY, NO RANKING
SCOPUS
OPEN ACCESS & SUBSCRIPTION JOURNALS , RANKING
WEB OF SCIENCE
NATIONAL LISTS
OPEN ACCESS & SUBSCRIPTION JOURNALS, RANKING
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

8. INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR OPEN ACCESS 开放获取的基本服务体系
DOAJ is part of the infrastructures needed for open access publishing
other services are
ORCID
LOCKSS
SHERPA/ROMEO
CROSSREF
ALTMETRICS SERVICES LIKE IMPACT STORY, ALTMETRIC
PKP OJS (OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEM)
DRYAD. FIGSHARE and other datarepositories
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

9. Assessing the Quality of a Journal 评估期刊质量
What is quality?
Quality of publishing（出版的质量）
Quality of the science （科学的质量）
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

10. Assessing Quality of Research 评估科学研究的质量
Reason for bad quality of science
Scientific Method is flawed
Peer-review is flawed
Citation analysis has many drawbacks
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

11. Can we measure the Quality of Research? (in the current system)
For almost everything we eat we can find scientific evidence for causing or preventing cancer
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

12. Can we measure the Quality of Research? (in the current system)
Is everything we eat associated with cancer?
A systematic cookbook review
Jonathan D Schoenfeld and John PA Ioannidis.
Am J Clin Nutrition 2013;97:127–34
In this talk I will focus on open access journals
All the studies were carefully done and scientifically sound

13. Peer-review & the Quality of Research
Eisen JA, MacCallum CJ, Neylon C (2013) Expert Failure: Re-evaluating
Research Assessment. PLoS Biol 11(10): e doi: /journal.pbio
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

14. Citations & Quality of Research 研究的质量和引用
Citation rates ARE for articles not journals
citation rates not same as impact
citing does not necessarily mean reading
More is not better
Self citations
PEER - Forced citations
In this talk I will focus on open access journals
Wageningen UR Library

15. highly skewed distribution of citations 高度不平衡的文献引用分布
Larivière et al. (2016)
Table 2: Percentage of papers published in with number of citations below the value of the 2015 JIF.
doi: 

16. What can we do with Citations?
Trace the source of data
make research connections / networks visible
Find key papers for specific topics (open citations corpus , part of IS4OA)
BUT:
No conclusions on impact from average citation scores
no conclusions on quality from number of citations
In this talk I will focus on open access journals
Blog.plos.org/biologue

17. Initiative for Open Citations I4OC
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

18. San Francisco Declaration on Research Impact 关于科研影响力的旧金山声明
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
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

19. Improving the Quality of Research 提升研究的质量
* Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why most published
research fi ndings are false. PLoS Med 2(8): e124
Improving the Quality of Research 提升研究的质量
Ioannidis: most published medical research is False
better experimental set-up, control possibilities
open access (articles and data) offers better control possibilities
need to publish all, negative and positive findings
more attention for reproducibility
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

20. NEED FOR OPEN ACCESS 我们需要开放获取
offers access to all who need it
Is anessential part of Open Science
Reduces the cost of publishing
improves communication in science
Improves communication about science
Offers best possibilities for full participation in the scientific enterprise for all scientists in the global south and North
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

21. Common Misunderstandings on Open Access 对开放获取的常见误解
Articles online free to read = Open Access? Articles online free to download = Open Access?
Authors can only use accepted open access articles for classroom use, put them on their own or institute website, make limited nr of prints
Authors need to retain their copyright in Open Access?
Open access can also be after 1 year, 2 years other delay NO
In this talk I will focus on open access journals
Open Access needs BOAI statement on journal website, saying the article will be immediate open access, free to read, download, distribute, print or use for whatever other legal purpose AND Open Access needs licensing and copyright conditions telling who is the owner of the work and telling who may use article content and for what purposes for instance CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-SA

22. ADVANTAGES OF OPEN ACCESS 开放获取的优势
articles receive more citations
articles are more read
reaches a bigger audience
is less prone to bias
avoids duplicate studies
Articles can be more easily checked
data less prone to manipulation
is better for advancing science
leads to more innovation
Leads to better education
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

23. ONLY in the case of QUALITY CONTROLLED OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
TRUE BUT ……
ONLY in the case of
QUALITY CONTROLLED
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

24. Assessing the Quality of Publishing 评估出版质量
DOAJ criteria for Quality Open Access Publishing
Principles of transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
(DOAJ, OASPA, COPE, WAME)
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

25. WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN ACCESS? 高质量的开放获取
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
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

26. The Future of Publishing 未来的出版
Not just about publishing
but More and more about SERVICES
Sophisticated searching interface
Altmetrics
Citation analysis
peer review (Publon)
discussion platform (Researchgate)
In this talk I will focus on open access journals
Publon
PKP-OJS
ResearchGate
Mendelej
Springer/nature
Elsevier
Digital Science

27. DOAJ Future Plans 未来计划 increased cooperation with PKP-OJS
Integration of altmetric scores
Integration of ORCID
Integration of article data links
Semi-automatic INDEX updates and screening
Semantic linking of specific content
worldwide ambassador programmes
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

28. DOAJ Worldwide Ambassador Programme
DOAJ Ambassador Programme extended to other regions Indonesia - Korea - Japan
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

29. DOAJ : Gatekeeper for Quality Open Access
Growing political support for DOAJ
DOAJ : Gatekeeper for Quality Open Access
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

30. Machine Readability Indexing Re-use Copyright Archiving Sustainable
Science Europe Member Organisations have adopted the following minimum expected services from publishers applicable when providing payments/subsidies for Open Access venues: 1. Indexing Journals have to be listed in standard databases like Directory of Open Access Journals / DOAJ ( ), Web of Science ( ), Scopus or PubMed ( ).1 In the case of books, collected volumes, proceedings and other academic publishing venues, basic technical information and peer review procedures have to be transparent on the website of the publishing venue. 2. Copyright and Re-use Authors hold copyright of their publication with no restrictions. All publications shall be published under an open license, preferably the Commons Attribution CC BY ( ). In any case, the license applied should fulfill the requirements defined by the Berlin Declaration ( ). 3. Sustainable Archiving Publishers have to make copies of the publication automatically available in registered third-party repositories immediately upon publication. Furthermore, authors receive all relevant information and support services to access the archived publication. Sustainable archiving of the publication has to be demonstrated by providing a persistent address where the full content of publication can be accessed, read and downloaded. Ends Link to ‘Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications’, published in April 2013: ent.pdf About Science Europe: Science Europe is an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations in 27 countries, established in 2011 to promote the collective interest of its members and to foster collaboration between them. For more information, see For further information please contact: Belinda Whitehead, Science Europe Communications Manager Tel: +32 (0) Authors may archive any version of the publication to any registered third-party repository or website with no delay. 4. Machine Readability Publication full text, metadata, supporting data (whenever published), citations and the status of the publication as Open Access have to be made available in a machinereadable form via open standards.2 Moreover, publishers shall notify authors of any changes occurring in the description of the structure of the data in a transparent way.
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31. ALGERIA

32. INDONESIA Ministry of Science and Technology directive
Science Europe Member Organisations have adopted the following minimum expected services from publishers applicable when providing payments/subsidies for Open Access venues: 1. Indexing Journals have to be listed in standard databases like Directory of Open Access Journals / DOAJ ( ), Web of Science ( ), Scopus or PubMed ( ).1 In the case of books, collected volumes, proceedings and other academic publishing venues, basic technical information and peer review procedures have to be transparent on the website of the publishing venue. 2. Copyright and Re-use Authors hold copyright of their publication with no restrictions. All publications shall be published under an open license, preferably the Commons Attribution CC BY ( ). In any case, the license applied should fulfill the requirements defined by the Berlin Declaration ( ). 3. Sustainable Archiving Publishers have to make copies of the publication automatically available in registered third-party repositories immediately upon publication. Furthermore, authors receive all relevant information and support services to access the archived publication. Sustainable archiving of the publication has to be demonstrated by providing a persistent address where the full content of publication can be accessed, read and downloaded. Ends Link to ‘Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications’, published in April 2013: ent.pdf About Science Europe: Science Europe is an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations in 27 countries, established in 2011 to promote the collective interest of its members and to foster collaboration between them. For more information, see For further information please contact: Belinda Whitehead, Science Europe Communications Manager Tel: +32 (0) Authors may archive any version of the publication to any registered third-party repository or website with no delay. 4. Machine Readability Publication full text, metadata, supporting data (whenever published), citations and the status of the publication as Open Access have to be made available in a machinereadable form via open standards.2 Moreover, publishers shall notify authors of any changes occurring in the description of the structure of the data in a transparent way.

33. Questionable Journals and Blacklists
问题期刊和黑名单

34. 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

35. How you can detect Questionable Journals 如何甄别出问题期刊
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

36. WHAT ABOUT THE STING ?? .
October 2013
February 2014
THE STING

37. . THE STING : An example of Bad Science
“The Sting” applied only to open access journals
No comparison was made with the subscription journals
This study was an example of 'Bad Science'
Many of the research results published in journals are false, in subscription journals and in open access journals
'Retraction Watch' only shows the top of the iceberg
Open access journals offer better control possibilities: more readers, more exposure, more complete data
Greater exposure is at the same time the reason why bad reviews with open access stand out more
Greater public exposure can be / and is in fact used to discredit open access journals

38. Questionable Publishing: the Real Picture*
**Shen and Björk.  BMC Medicine201513:230
Questionable Publishing: the Real Picture
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!!)

39. Questionable Publishing in Perspective 有关问题期刊
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 or WoS: only 20-30,000 of 100,000 (data Ulrich’s Web)
Not all open access journals are in DOAJ : only about 10-12,000 of 30,000 ***
*** Walt Crawford

40. Questionable Publishing in Perspective
CONCLUSION
Percentage of Quality checked Journals in Open Access and Subscription publishing systems is comparable

41. The Reality of Open Access 开放获取的真实情况
IF Open Access were really such LOW QUALITY.....
Why would so many publishers switch to Open Access?
Why would 30 % of all STM papers to date be published using open access?
Why would open access grow at twice the rate of toll access?
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

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