Presented during Open Access Week 2014, on 20 October 2014, Durban University of Technology

1. 1
Scholarly Journal Publishing
in South Africa Ina Smith
20 October 2014

2. Agenda
• Open Access at DUT
• Scholarly Publication Landscape
• Open Access Scholarly Publication Landscape
• Alignment with Government Goals & role of ASSAf
• The road ahead

3. Open Access @ DUT
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access (Prof Ahmed Bawa, 20 May 2013)
• “We stand for something noble” (Prof Bawa)
• “Mission to make knowledge useful” (Prof Sibusiso Moyo)
• “Projects we engage in should have an impact”
• “Encourages the production of new knowledge”

4. Open Access Routes
•Green: Institutional Repository (IR) Submit a 2nd copy of research output (articles), theses, dissertations, data sets and more
•Gold: Open Access Journal Titles - Publish in OA journal titles - Offer OA journal hosting service Focus on ‘gold’ ….

5. Open Access Journals
•Peer-reviewed (traditional & ‘open’)
•Serve as forum for introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research & critique existing research
•Available online to reader without financial, legal, technical barriers

6. The Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, published in Italy, has been called a scam but it appears on the CVs of several professors at Unisa as the publisher of papers authored by them.
6
Diane Parker, an acting deputy director- general in the Department of Higher Education and Training, said the publication was listed in Scopus, a database of academic journals.

7. Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
Database
Titles
Genamics JournalSeek
102 139
Thomson Reuters Master Journal List
16 970
Scopus SCImago Journal & Country Rank
29 385
JURN Directory
3 000
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
336 000+

8. Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
http://doaj.org/
10 032 titles

9. SA Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
AOSiS
26
ASSAf
47
SU
20
AJOL
86
OASPA
Non-OASPA
HMPG 11
Sabinet
95

10. SA Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
http://doaj.org/
71
titles

11. Institutional Scholarly Journal Publishing Landscape
Example: Stellenbosch University (Sept. 2014)
Open Access
59
Subscription
47
Total
106
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNJournals/list

12. SA Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing Software
AOSiS OJS
SU
OJS
AJOL
OJS
HMPG
OJS
ASSAf
SciELO
Support for
OJS & ScholarOne

13. ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Programme
SPP
Open Access Publishing
Access to Core Commercial Databases
Peer-review of SA Journals
Scientific Writing
National Scholarly Editors’ Forum
National Scholarly Book Publishers’ Forum

14. Towards a new quality assurance system in SA
2003: Policy and Procedures for the Measurement of Research Output of Public Higher Education Institutions
Encourage research productivity by rewarding quality research output (R 117 000,00 per article)
Hosting SA scholarly journals on SciELO - increasing visibility, accessibility & impact of research output – global recognition
Evaluating SA scholarly journals – improve quality

15. Access to knowledge resources (1)
•South Africa's higher education system is confronted with three major priorities:
–(1) to produce a highly qualified human resource base which is needed for national development,
–(2) to develop the next generation of academics to sustain and transform the system; and
–(3) to produce high-quality research and innovation outputs that can enhance the country’s global competitiveness.

16. Access to knowledge resources (2)
•All three priorities are absolutely dependent on access to papers published by other scholars, local and international, in leading journals.
•Many of these journals are high-cost, commercial titles published by large multi- national corporations.

17. Access to knowledge resources (3)
•The equitable model will be a more cost- effective and sustainable route for facilitating access to the intellectual resources required for achieving our higher education priorities.
•Without this, or the investment of billions of additional Rands in higher education, we are unlikely to succeed in developing an equitable, diverse human resource base on which to build the knowledge economy.

18. Important developments
To ensure continued quality assurance, visibility and accessibility of SA journals
•Certification of SciELO SA Collection
•Inclusion on Web of Knowledge platform
•Signing of MoU with DHET to do quality peer review of ALL SA journals
•Change DHET policy for automatic accreditation of SA journals
•Improved accreditation policy towards publishing of books & conference proceedings

19. Quality Scholarly Journals ASSAf Criteria (1)
Reputation/standing of Editorial Board members
Quality of articles
Issues/articles per annum
Representative of best work in country
Focus on local/regional problems
Author distribution – national/international
Author distribution – inter-institutional
Scholarly features

20. Quality Scholarly Journals ASSAf Criteria (2)
English abstracts
Errata
Citation practice
Presentation, layout, style, copy-editing
Stimulus for new researchers
Comparability with leading international journals

21. DOAJ Criteria (1)
http://doaj.org/application/new
Online ISSN (EISSN)
Publisher/Platform/Host/Aggregator
Policy re Submission Charges & Article Processing Charges (APC’s)
Digital archiving policy
OAI-PMH compliant (article level metadata)
Persistent digital object identifiers (doi’s)

22. DOAJ Criteria (2)
Double blind peer-review process
Aims and scope
Instructions to authors
Plagiarism detection policy
Submission-publication period
Journal Open Access policy
Content licensing (Creative Commons)
Author rights
Deposit policy with deposit policy directory

23. More …
Web page and URL
Journal history
Journal metrics
Previously published issues
Ethics and malpractice statement
Information on accreditation and indexing
Researcher identities
Agreements

24. DUT Research Output - Recommendations
•2nd copy of research output in DUT IR
•Links from research report to items in IR
•Publish in OA DHET accredited journals
•Negotiate copyright with publishers
•Audit of DUT journal publications
•Host an OA journal service
•Data management

25. The road ahead …
Open Access Policy Article Processing Charges (APC’s) Peer-review & quality – elevate for all SA scholarly journals, change perceptions re OA Impact factor vs Open Access New trends (video journals, crowd- sourced peer-review, early cite, publish article immediately following peer-review)

26. Thank you
Website: www.assaf.org.za
E-mail: ina@assaf.org.za
26