scholarly journals The Episciences journals: an overview

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnès Magron ◽  
Claire Dandieu
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Support Teams ◽  
Know How ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Peer Reviewing

Episciences (https://www.episciences.org/) is a hosting platform of open access journals created in 2013 and developed by the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD), a joint unit of French public research organisms (CNRS, INRIA, INRA and Lyon University).The Episciences project is organized with a steering committee and epi-committees, whose role is to promote the creation of editorial committees. It is built as an overlay (epi-) publishing service upon an open repository, currently arXiv and HAL.  The platform is free of charge and offers a comprehensive set of tools for managing the journal, from organizing peer reviewing to disseminating its contents. Episciences allows research communities to experiment with innovative ways to publish and disseminate contents: authors first submit their preprints in an open archive and then submit them to the overlay journal of their choice.Episciences now hosts 11 journals in Mathematics, Informatics, Social and Human sciences. There are new journals originally created in Episciences and existing journals that have migrated on it.In April 2018 – five years after the launch of Episciences – the CCSD conducted a survey of the editorial teams regarding their uses of Episciences and their expectations. The survey was a Google Form sent to the chief editors of the 11 active journals. The objective was to collect at least one answer for each journal, representative of the positions of the editorial team. All the 11 teams have answered. The survey was intended to test their satisfaction, to better know how they use the main software features, and to test their opinion about emerging practices such as open peer review.The poster will present the main results of this survey. The main weakness of Episciences is the workflow imposing a two-stage submission process (in the repository and after in the journal). The strengths are the great assets of the economic model and the editorial support teams.

scholarly journals Perfil dos autores brasileiros com publicações científicas em periódicos de acesso aberto

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-154
Author(s):  
: Patrícia Mascarenhas Dias ◽  
Thiago Magela Rodrigues Dias ◽  
Gray Farias Moita
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Data Source

In the current state of scientific development, identifying how the results of scientific and technological investigations are being published allows us to understand how scientific communication has been used to disseminate the studies carried out and the results achieved. In this scenario, the publication of articles in open access journals appears as an important and interesting mechanism for the dissemination of scientific research, since it facilitates and enables access to them, considering that there are no barriers, especially financial ones, to access the contents of this type of publication. Thus, this work aims to present a characterization of the group of Brazilian researchers who have published articles in open access journals. To this end, the Lattes Platform curricula is used as a data source to initially identify researchers with publications of articles in open access journals and, subsequently, draw a portrait of the profile of these researchers, such as areas of expertise, levels of training and geographic distribution.

Predatory Open Access Journals and Attainment of Educational Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Wole Michael Olatokun ◽  
Ojinga Gideon Omuinu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Education System ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Predatory Publishing

Putting into consideration the objective of the SDG 4, it would be important to note that the provision, access, and use of information resources such as open access (OA) journals is a sine qua non for quality education in Africa. Despite its importance to the education system, open access journals have been proliferated by predatory journals. Stakeholders in the OA movement and academia claim that predatory publishing is a big problem for scientific communication and could undermine development efforts. Hence, the increasing use of predatory open access journals could affect the attainment of SDGs in Africa; hence, there is the need to raise awareness to enhance the possibility of attaining the SDGs in Africa. This chapter will among others enumerate the possible havocs predatory open access journals can create and the setbacks on the attainment of SDGs in Africa. It will also spell out the necessary prospects of curtailing these havocs and setbacks towards providing quality-based information resources such as open access journals to the education societies in Africa.

Scriptorium: Creating an Open-Access Creative Writing Journal in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Creative Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Creative Writing Studies ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Open Access Journals

Since 2012, Creative Writing has been an official concentration within the Graduate Program in Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. PUCRS is still the only institution offering Creative Writing courses across all levels (undergraduate, MA, PhD, workshops, non-credit courses) in the country. Within this context, we created Scriptorium, our first Creative Writing Studies journal. Linked to the Graduate Program in Letters and EDIPUCRS (the university press), Scriptorium publishes articles on the creative process, literary translation, Creative Writing pedagogy, as well as fiction and poetry. In our editorial team, we have faculty members, graduate, and undergraduate students. Every article is peer-reviewed, and the journal is open access and published online. The present paper aims to offer an account of the creation of our journal, drawing from my experience as editor. I will share our publishing process, the challenges in the dialogue between Creative Writing and Academia in Brazil, and our views for the future of this kind of publication, hoping that our experience can prove useful to other researchers and institutions wanting to publish similar open access journals.

scholarly journals A Survey of Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D Edgar ◽  
John Willinsky
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Peer Reviewing ◽  
Limited Degree ◽  
Source Journal ◽  
Acceptance Rates ◽  
Traditional Norms ◽  
Open Journal Systems

A survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characteristics of an emerging class of scholar-publisher open access journals. The journals in the sample follow traditional norms for peer-reviewing, acceptance rates, and disciplinary focus, but as a group are distinguished by the number that offer open access to their content, growth rates in new titles, participation rates from developing countries, and extremely low operating budgets. The survey also documents the limited degree to which open source software can alter a field of communication, for OJS appears to have created a third path, dedicated to maximizing access to research and scholarship, as an alternative to traditional scholarly society and commercial publishing routes.

scholarly journals Welcome to Nursing Reports

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marilyn Kirshbaum, Editor-in-Chief
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The World

I am absolutely thrilled to have such an opportunity to make a unique contribution to my profession and the wider community. At heart, I have been a nurse for a very long time. I have spent many years in clinical practice and have been fortunate to have personally thrived in the pursuit of scientific inquiry, analysis, reporting and scholarship in nursing. As this is the first editorial of Nursing Reports, I would like to share my vision. An open access journal of this kind is intended, first and foremost, to provide a communication platform from which all levels of credible knowledge relative to nursing, from all reaches of the world, could be disseminated, diffused and debated. A key objective is to make rigorously conducted research accessible to the full spectrum of practicing nurses, academics, educators and interested members of the public. It will be the job of the editorial team to ensure that high academic and ethical standards for research and reporting are reached so that we can build a strong and sound reputation; we want the journal to be widely read and influential within the broad fields of nursing, health and social care. A second objective relates to the relatively new paradigm of open access journals; there is huge scope here to reach out to nurses in the world, not only those who have subscriptions or affiliated with academic or health service libraries. The focus of the journal is to present a global perspective of nursing, its advances and issues of current concern. As nurses we are committed to the health of communities – our personal contribution may be clinical, political, educative or academic. Therefore submissions on all areas relevant to nursing are requested, whether they are in the form of empirical reports, reviews of literature, conceptual analyses, debates, short reports from around the globe or open letters that are of concern to the international community. I believe that this journal could be so vibrant and dynamic! Our esteemed associate editors and editorial board currently includes experts in mental health, cancer care, aging, public health and family, acute care, palliative care, social sciences, health promotion, empowerment, disadvantaged groups and education – and statistics. A huge welcome to ALL! Now, let’s get writing and communicating!!

scholarly journals What Are the Characteristics of Canadian Independent, Scholarly Journals? Results from a Website Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lange ◽  
Sarah Severson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Board Structure ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Commercial Publisher ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Article Processing Charges

The dominance of commercial publishers (Larivière, Haustein, and Mongeon 2015) has led to a discussion in Canada focusing on alternative models for supporting independent, non-commercial, scholarly journals. Although small in number, these journals represent an important contribution to Canadian and global scholarship. They also act as a counterbalance to the increasingly for-profit nature of scholarly publishing. Despite their importance, there exists no definitive list of journals of this nature in Canada, making analysis and understanding of their characteristics difficult.In order to address this gap, the researchers undertook an analysis of the websites of 485 Canadian, independent, scholarly journals. Independent was defined as journals which are not affiliated with a commercial publisher. The researchers gathered data for each journal on their access type (e.g., closed, open access), subject area, size and composition of the editorial team, and any affiliation(s). This data was then analyzed to create a portrait of these journals with these themes. The researchers found that most of these journals were affiliated with at least one organization, with over half being associated with two or more. They also discovered that affiliations varied depending on the discipline and that the size of the editorial team was correlated to the access type. Journals were predominantly in the humanities and social sciences, and the majority were open access (OA) without article processing charges (APCs).While the focus of this study is on Canadian journals, this article provides a framework for other researchers to examine non-commercial, independent publishing in their own countries. Its results also provide preliminary data which may inspire future avenues of research, particularly into models for non-APC, open access journals as well as the editorial board structure and size for independent journals.

scholarly journals Tendência de publicação em periódicos de acesso aberto no Brasil: uma abordagem quantitativa

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
Patrícia Mascarenhas Dias ◽  
Thiago Magela Rodrigues Dais ◽  
Gray Farias Moita
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Dissemination Of Research

Scientific communication is characterized as an important mechanism for the dissemination of research results in different areas of knowledge. In this context, scientific articles are characterized as the main elements for describing the studies carried out and, consequently, the results obtained. Identifying how the results of scientific investigations are being published allows us to understand how scientific communication has been used to disseminate the studies carried out. In this scenario, the publication of articles in open access appears as an interesting mechanism for the dissemination of scientific research, since it facilitates and enables access to it, considering that there are no barriers, especially financial ones, to access the contentes of this type of publication. Therefore, this work aims to present the trend of publications in open access journals, carried out by Brazilian researchers over the past years.

scholarly journals Pelatihan Akreditasi Jurnal Nasional Bagi Pengelola Jurnal Se-Indonesia di Universitas Pelita Bangsa, Cikarang, Bekasi

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-120
Author(s):  
Syamruddin Syamruddin ◽  
Gatot Kusjono ◽  
Iman Lubis ◽  
Oki Iqbal Khair ◽  
Andi Sopandi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Know How ◽  
National Journal ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Training Post ◽  
Open Journal Systems

This Community Service (PkM) aims to share and share knowledge and enlightenment for journal managers in Indonesia on how to manage journals properly and correctly. Then provide tips on preparing for an accredited journal. Besides that, it also helps journal managers to achieve the National Journal Accreditation (Arjuna) SINTA. The methods used are in the form of orientation, lectures, workshops, journal reviews, and evaluations. The method consists of four stages, namely pre-training, training, post-training, and continuous PkM activities. The results obtained by the participants during the training were that they increasingly understood how to manage a good and correct journal. Participants know how to manage journals through open-access journals using open journal systems. Furthermore, after understanding the correct management of journals, participants are more confident in preparing their journals for national journal accreditation. The next stage, is ready to register the journal to be accredited by the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Abstrak Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (PkM) ini bertujuan untuk sharing dan berbagi pengetahuan dan pencerahan bagi para pengelola jurnal di Indonesia bagaimana mengelola jurnal dengan baik dan benar. Kemudian memberikan tip-tip tentang persiapan menuju jurnal yang terakreditasi. Selain itu  mengantarkan para pengelola jurnal agar bisa meraih Akreditasi Jurnal Nasional (Arjuna) SINTA. Adapun metode yang dilakukan yaitu dalam bentuk orientasi, ceramah, workshop, bedah jurnal, dan evaluasi. Metode tersebut dalam empat tahap yakni pra pelatihan, pelatihan, paska pelatihan, dan kegiatan PkM berkelanjutan. Hasil yang diperoleh peserta selama pelatihan adalah semakin memahami bagaimana mengelola jurnal yang baik dan benar. Peserta mengetahui pengelolaan jurnal melalui open-access journal dengan cara open journal systems. Selanjutnya setelah memahami pengelolaan jurnal yang benar, peserta semakin yakin untuk mempersiapkan jurnalnya menuju akreditasi jurnal nasional. Tahap berikutnya, sudah siap untuk mendaftarkan jurnalnya untuk diakreditasi oleh Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN). Kata Kunci: pelatihan; akreditasi; jurnal; sistem jurnal terbuka

scholarly journals Scientific Communication between Spanish and English Educational Technology Journals. A Citation Analysis of eight Journals

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Victoria I. Marín ◽  
Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Open Access Journals

In order to disseminate the findings and recommendations from their studies, researchers publish papers in scientific journals in their subject area. Research communities thus emerge as a result of the communication between authors who cite other relevant papers. This study focuses on the relationships between Spanish and English research communities in the specific field of Educational Technology. We explore as hypotheses whether there are signs of scientific journal communication between authors in these two communities, and if the English authors reciprocate citations by Spanish authors. In order to verify them, a social network analysis was conducted by considering outgoing and incoming citations in eight open access journals (four in English and four in Spanish) published over ten years (2007-2016). The sample includes 3,407 articles, which were analysed using UCINET and Gephi software. The results show partial confirmation of the hypotheses, since two separate research communities were recognized, with almost no communication between them. However, the Spanish community was presented as more connected than the English one. We interpret these results by considering not only language factors, but also the journal roots and the particular subject field under consideration. Finally, we highlight some general recommendations to enhance future communication between these two education research communities.

Predatory Open Access Journals and Attainment of Educational Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

2022 ◽  
pp. 506-519
Author(s):  
Wole Michael Olatokun ◽  
Ojinga Gideon Omuinu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Education System ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Predatory Publishing

Putting into consideration the objective of the SDG 4, it would be important to note that the provision, access, and use of information resources such as open access (OA) journals is a sine qua non for quality education in Africa. Despite its importance to the education system, open access journals have been proliferated by predatory journals. Stakeholders in the OA movement and academia claim that predatory publishing is a big problem for scientific communication and could undermine development efforts. Hence, the increasing use of predatory open access journals could affect the attainment of SDGs in Africa; hence, there is the need to raise awareness to enhance the possibility of attaining the SDGs in Africa. This chapter will among others enumerate the possible havocs predatory open access journals can create and the setbacks on the attainment of SDGs in Africa. It will also spell out the necessary prospects of curtailing these havocs and setbacks towards providing quality-based information resources such as open access journals to the education societies in Africa.

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