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Journals Online: Increasing the Visibility of National Research

Journals Online: Increasing the Visibility of National Research. Sioux Cumming, Publishing Support, INASP. Journals Online (JOLs). Multiple journal community websites to: increase visibility of research from regional journals in developing countries increase capacity of the editors to

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Journals Online: Increasing the Visibility of National Research

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  1. Journals Online: Increasing the Visibility of National Research Sioux Cumming, Publishing Support, INASP

  2. Journals Online (JOLs) Multiple journal community websites to: • increase visibility of research from regional journals in developing countries • increase capacity of the editors to • improve the quality of their journals • manage their journals online • showcase national journals to researchers

  3. AJOL established 1998 OJS used www.ajol.info 2005 AJOL hosted & managed in SA 2005 NepJOL www.nepjol.info Aug 2006 VJOL www.vjol.info Dec 2006 BanglaJOL www.banglajol.info May 2007 PhilJOL www.philjol.info Apr 2008 SLJOL www.sljol.info Aug 2008

  4. AsiaJOL Est. 2008 VJOL local hosting Mar 2009 PhilJOL local hosting Apr 2010 Workshops throughout

  5. AJOL www.ajol.info 385 journals from 29 countries 60,000 visits per month Under South African management

  6. BanglaJOL • Launched in 2007 • Currently 50 journals across a wide spread of subjects • 83% full text • 20% using peer-review system • Online support community for the editors • Key challenges: Power and human resources

  7. NepJOL • Launched in 2007 • Currently 49 journals across wide spread of subjects • 72% full text • 37% journals are loading content • TUCL loading most other content • Online support community for editors Key challenges: Power, Political instability, Staff changes

  8. VJOL • Launched in 2007 • 23 journals • Bilingual • Hosting transferred locally in 2009 Key challenges: • Language • Finding new content

  9. PhilJOL • Launched in 2008 • Currently 35 journals across wide spread of subjects • 77% full text • Online support community for editors • Hosting being transferred locally 2010 Key challenges: University rivalries, Finding new content

  10. SLJOL • Launched in 2008 • 25 journals • 95% of articles full-text • 30% of journals using peer-review system Key challenges: • Political instability • Staff changes

  11. AsiaJOL

  12. JOLs general challenges • Lack of resources/time • Getting new content • Keeping the sites low bandwidth • In Africa attitudes to open access but not in Asia (95% of articles on SLJOL full text) • Finding in-country hosting within a four year time period

  13. Training and support for the JOLs Capacity building workshops for editors including: • Initial workshop on loading articles and online publishing strategy • Subsequent training workshops on using the full online submission system, general training on the roles of the editor, author and reviewer and training on managing an editorial office • Online publishing training workshops for countries using AJOL

  14. Networking and communication • JOLs newsletters • D-group discussion lists • Support for editorial networks – i.e FAME and JEAN

  15. JOL Newsletters

  16. Evaluating

  17. Results • Increase in submissions, e.g. Journal of Scientific Research, Bangladesh, call for papers July 2008; 3 issues with average of 30 papers; 87 under review. • 22% increase in acceptance in indexes • “I must thank you for your support of our journal through PhilJOL. As soon as we got into PhilJOL, the number of submissions has increased significantly. The increase is so significant, that I am considering suggesting to our publisher that we increase the number of issues per year from 2 to 3. The quality of the submissions has also improved! I know that this improvement is partly due to our visibility in PhilJOL.”

  18. Future directions • Development of Latin America JOL • Further development of Asia JOL • Search for in-country partners to take over hosting

  19. Conclusion • Researchers in Developing Countries face challenges of isolation, lack of support, lack of experience • Collaborative projects such as the JOLs and AuthorAID can attempt to address these challenges • The creation of networking organisations give researchers the tools and the power to create their own solutions

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