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OPEN ACCESS DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA AND OTHER IMPORTANT
REGIONS IN THE WORLD:R E S U L T S O F T H E D O A J A M B A S S A D O R P R O G R A M 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7
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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
• 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
eLife
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
EMBO J.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
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ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
J. Informetrics
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
Nature
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
Nature Comm.
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
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f pap
ers
Number of citations
PLOS Biol.
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
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f pap
ers
Number of citations
PLOS Genet.
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
PLOS ONE
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
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f pap
ers
Number of citations
Proc. R. Soc. B
0
10
20
30
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60
70
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
f pap
ers
Number of citations
Science
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100+
Num
ber o
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
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 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
Thanks to :
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!