Status and Performance of Open Access Journals in Africa

Mousaion ◽  
10.25159/1262 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Williams Nwagwu ◽  
Salmon Makhubela
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
South America ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Excel Spreadsheet ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Social ◽  
America South ◽  
And Performance

This article reports on an examination of the uptake and status of open access journals (OAJs) in Africa based on the listing of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The article addresses the questions of the pattern of distribution of OAJs in Africa and examines the distribution of the oldest closed access journals that have migrated to the open access (OA) platform; the distribution of the publishers; and the licensing regime and publication languages. We first downloaded all the content of the DOAJ into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and then into Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, after editing. For data on publishers, the list of publishers was pasted into the MS Excel spreadsheet and physically sorted. As at November 2014, the total volume of OAJs globally registered in the DOAJ was 10 152, including those born closed which have now migrated to the OA platform. Globally, Europe produced the largest number of journals, followed by Asia, North America, South America and Africa. South America produced the highest number of journals per country. Egypt had the highest number of journals through the activities of one organisation, Hindawi. A journal of African origin is the oldest closed access journal in the DOAJ database; while corporations dominate OAJ publishing. Generally, OA uptake in Africa is considerably low. We suggest that the DOAJ should be proactive in sensitising publishers and other stakeholders in Africa about their services and the benefits, and how to include their journals in the database.

scholarly journals Increasing the volume of Gold Open Access journals in SSHA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Halse ◽  
Lena Cecilie Linge
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reference Index ◽  
Gold Open Access

Currently, there is an apparent lack of Gold Open Access journals in Social Science, Humanities and Arts (SSHA), as showcased by the open letter the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) sent to the SSHA communities 16 May 2019. DOAJ asserts in the letter that they agree 100% that DOAJ’s coverage of SSHA journals is insufficient. The implications of the lack of available outlets for research articles by SSHA grantholders in the early years of Plan S implementation may include disadvantages for researchers in the fields. A mandatory criterion for Plan S compliant OA journals is that they must be registered in the DOAJ. One consequence of the lack of coverage is when SSHA scholars seek funding from any of the research agencies or funders that are part of cOAlition S, as scholars will encounter difficulties in finding relevant quality Gold OA journals in which they can publish their research. This could impair SSHA scholars’ chances of receiving grants. Because of the ongoing and accelerated changes to the scholarly publication landscape today, there is a need to support SSHA communities with identifying quality journals which qualifies as Gold OA. To achieve ‘true’ Gold OA status a journal needs to be indexed in DOAJ, as Gold OA journals are in practice defined by their inclusion in this directory. The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) provides a curated register of peer reviewed journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities. Today ERIH PLUS includes 7,473 scientific journals, and 2,220 of the journals are also listed by DOAJ. Furthermore, ERIH PLUS covers 1,469,204 scholarly Gold OA publications, according to data from Dimensions. However, less than half of these, 712,135 publications, are today indexed in DOAJ. Dimensions (free version) classifies Gold OA publications in the following way: “Gold – refers to articles in fully accessible open access journals that are available immediately upon publication without a license”. In this project we seek to identify DOAJ inclusion candidates from the group of journals that have published the 757,069 Gold OA publications that are not listed in DOAJ, according to Dimensions data. We will work with editors/editorial staff of journals that we identify as having the potential to be indexed by DOAJ. The goal is to increase the volume of Gold OA journals in SSHA. We will contact, present arguments and provide support to journal editors in order to convince them to apply for inclusion in DOAJ. In the poster, we will outline and describe some of the key tasks for the project in order to reach our goal. The project that we will briefly outline will center on: Describing incentives for obtaining ‘true’ Gold OA status for SSHA journals Identifying journals in ERIH PLUS for possible DOAJ inclusion Efforts to flip SSHA journals to ‘true’ Gold OA

scholarly journals How to fill the information gap: Open Access for the social sciences and humanities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Ernst ◽  
Judith Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
European Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
The Social

Researchers not actively seeking information about Open Access and scholars who are not actively informed by their institutions might be concerned about publishing Open Access due to lack of information. Questions such as “Why is Open Access necessary and what do I gain?”, “What happens to my rights as an author?”, and “Why was I not told about this discount before I paid the full APC from my project fund?” might come up. This workshop is directed at representatives of research organizations and universities (e.g. Open Access offices, project coordinators, and interested researchers) on the topic of helping researchers finding answers to these questions and advocating for Open Access in the humanities and social sciences. The workshop seeks to discuss aspects that have been identified by participants priorly as most pressing to discuss. We therefore invite all registered participants to fill in a short survey by 12 October 2020. For any questions, please don’t hesitate contacting Elisabeth Ernst and Judith Schulte ([email protected]) OPERAS is the European Research Infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities. Its Special Interest Group on “Advocacy” works on topics related to the communication and advocating of Open Access in the social sciences and humanities and of those disciplines.

scholarly journals PREVALÊNCIA DE INCONTINÊNCIA URINÁRIA E FECAL EM IDOSOS: ESTUDO EM INSTITUIÇÕES DE LONGA PERMANÊNCIA PARA IDOSOS

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirian Alves Silva ◽  
Elizabeth Souza Silva Aguiar ◽  
Suellen Duarte de Oliveira Matos ◽  
Joab De Oliveira Lima ◽  
Marta Miriam Lopes Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Social

Objetivou-se investigar a prevalência de incontinência urinária (IU) e incontinência fecal (IF) entre idosos residentes nas instituições de longa permanência para idosos de João Pessoa, Paraíba. Foi um estudo de caráter transversal, populacional e descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa realizada com toda a população residente nas seis instituições de longa permanência para idosos (ILPI) cadastradas no Conselho Nacional de Serviço Social e no Conselho Municipal de Idosos do município de João Pessoa, que contabilizou 322 idosos. Os dados foram coletados em instrumento composto por questionário que aborda o perfil dos participantes da pesquisa, através das variáveis sociodemográficas e condições clínicas, e foram duplamente digitados e validados em uma planilha do programa Microsoft Excel, sendo os cálculos estatísticos realizados no software SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), versão 20.0. Foi empregada a estatística descritiva. A idade média dos participantes foi de 81,13 ± 9,39 anos, 172 (53,42%) eram brancos, 168 (53,67%) eram solteiros, 35 (59,32%), frequentaram a escola entre quatro a dez anos, 222 (84,09%), recebiam de um a três salários mínimos, 159 (49,69%) estavam na instituição há menos de três anos, 33 (10,25%) eram portadores de IU, 01 (0,31%) apresentavam IF, e 120 (37,27%) apresentavam os dois tipos de incontinência (IU e IF). Observou-se que houve um potencial significativo para que esses idosos desenvolvam incontinências, sendo, portanto essencial o planejamento e a adoção de medidas que envolvam o conhecimento desta realidade, buscando encontrar caminhos que conduzam a minimizar os efeitos físicos e emocionais deste problema.

scholarly journals Métodos alternativos para o cálculo dos escores e estatística descritiva do instrumento QDV-DA para avaliação da qualidade de vida de pessoas com doença de Alzheimer

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryadyne Bueno Rocha Szesz ◽  
Mylena Aparecida Rodrigues Alves ◽  
Bruno Pedroso
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Social

OBJETIVO: Construir uma ferramenta (utilizando o software de ampla acessibilidade Microsoft Excel) para realização do cálculo dos escores e da estatística descritiva do instrumento Qualidade de Vida – Doença de Alzheimer (QDV-DA), com a respectiva sintaxe no Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).MÉTODOS: As ferramentas construídas a partir do software Microsoft Excel e SPSS com o objetivo de realizar o cálculo dos escores e da estatística descritiva do instrumento QDV-DA foram confeccionadas neste estudo. Tal construção deu-se nos mesmos moldes dos estudos de Pedroso, Pilatti e Reis (2009), que desenvolveram ferramentas para o cálculo dos escores e estatística descritiva do instrumento WHOQOL-100, e da sintaxe SPSS para o cálculo dos escores desse instrumento (GRUPO WHOQOL, 1998) e sua fidedignidade foi testada por meio de simulações, comparando-se os resultados obtidos entre ambas, com o almejo que estes viessem a ser exatamente os mesmos.RESULTADOS: Os resultados retornados pelo Microsoft Excel e pelo SPSS foram comparados, tendo havido 100% de coincidência em todos os escores de cada item analisado do instrumento QDV-DA.CONCLUSÕES: Foi possível a disponibilização de um método alternativo fidedigno para os cálculos dos escores e estatística descritiva do instrumento QDV-DA, por meio de plataforma amplamente difundida e de baixa complexidade para utilização.

scholarly journals Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Erik Frantsvåg ◽  
Tormod Eismann Strømme
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Article Processing Charges

Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll-access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S-compliant. We suspected this was not so and set out to explore this using Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata. We conclude that a large majority of open access journals are not Plan S-compliant, and that it is small publishers in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) not charging article processing charges (APC) that will face the largest challenge with becoming compliant. Plan S needs to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC based journals.

scholarly journals Adopting open access in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from a developing nation

Heliyon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. e04522
Author(s):  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
Minh-Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Thanh-Huyen T. Nguyen ◽  
Thanh-Dung Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Measuring the Impact of Digital Heritage Collections Using Google Scholar

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel Borrego
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Scholarly Impact ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Local Languages

This study aimed to measure the impact of digital heritage collections by analysing the citations received in scholarly outputs. Google Scholar was used to retrieve the scholarly outputs citing Memòria Digital de Catalunya (MDC), a cooperative, open-access repository containing digitized collections related to Catalonia and its heritage. The number of documents citing MDC has grown steadily since the creation of the repository in 2006. Most citing documents are scholarly outputs in the form of articles, proceedings and monographs, and academic theses and dissertations. Citing documents mainly pertain to the humanities and the social sciences and are in local languages. The most cited MDC collection contains digitized ancient Catalan periodicals. The study shows that Google Scholar is a suitable tool for providing evidence of the scholarly impact of digital heritage collections. Google Scholar indexes the full-text of documents, facilitating the retrieval of citations inserted in the text or in sections that are not the final list of references. It also indexes document types, such as theses and dissertations, which contain a significant share of the citations to digital heritage collections.

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