1. QATAR NATIONAL LIBRARY
Discovery of Open Access Content
Milan Vasiljevic,
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2. Why relevant OA source matters?
To avoid Predatory publishers
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3. How to identify predatory journal/publisher
Is the editor a real person? How about their institution?
Can you identify and contact publisher of a journal?
Fake journal ranking information (IF)
Dodgy looking web site
Broad disciplinary coverage
Is it indexed in some of the indexes you are using?
Can you read the articles on the journal website and if you can – are they any good?
Very short Peer Review and acceptance period

4. Or…
You can submit your article to a journal and wait for the feedback…
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5. Feedback

6. Index doesn't guarantee quality

7. Where (OA initiatives)
10,229 Journals
7,409 searchable at Article level
121 Countries
2,637,000 Articles
9349 Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 233 publishers
Total = 3448 repositories
OpenDOAR - 22-Oct-2017
319 Periodicals
150 Publishers
18 Arab countries
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8. Where (OA Publishers/platforms)
PLOS (for Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit open access science, technology and medicine publisher
PLOS Journals
PLOS Biology, October 2003
PLOS Medicine, October 2004
PLOS Computational Biology, June 2005
PLOS Genetics, July 2005
PLOS Pathogens, September 2005
PLOS ONE, December 2006
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, October 2007
PLOS Currents, August 2009
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9. Where (OA Publishers/platforms)
BioMed Central publishes over 250 scientific journals
Biomedicine
Science
Chemistry
Mathematics
Dentistry
Medicine & Public Health Pharmacy
Education
Engineering
Philosophy
Environment
Physics
Life Sciences
Psychology
Materials
Add coverage
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10. Where (OA Publishers/platforms)
Established in 2015 currently
has 20 journals in its portfolio
4000 articles
Life, Biology, Health Sciences and
Computer Science
More than 400 journals in science, technology, medicine and humanities
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11. Where OA PrePrints
Launched in August 2017
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12. OA journal flipping Look for OA alternatives within your discipline
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13. your Library
Library discovery tools – some might call it library catalog - should have option to find OA content.
Talk with your librarians!
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14. Or use other libraries search enignes
Search across 47,048,006 OA documents
Browsing features
Covers more or less all OA publishers/platforms
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
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15. Unpaywall
Browser extension
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16. Unpaywall - finding free, legal, full-text articles

17. OA button - finding free, legal, full-text articles

18. Thank you QNL open to the public on November 7th
Find out more about our open access resources by going to
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