[Irtalk] Accredited OA journals by subject

[Ina Smith]

Dear Allison
Many thanks for taking the initiative on this! It is much appreciated ... Allison - may I suggest that we approach an individual from each HEI to be your contact? This way we have more commitment? Paulette is currently on leave, but Sanele has kindly shared with the Liasa list. I have put in brackets the names I can contribute ....
Thanks so much for taking this forward!!!
Kind regards
Ina

*         North-West University

*         Rhodes University

*         University of Cape Town (Jill Claassen)

*         University of Fort Hare

*         University of KwaZulu-Natal (Joyce Myeza)

*         University of Limpopo

*         University of Pretoria

*         University of Stellenbosch (Yusuf Ras)

*         University of the Free State (Senovia Welman)

*         University of the Western Cape (Alfred Nqotole)

*         University of the Witwatersrand

*         University of Mpumalanga (Sanele Kunene)

*         University of Johannesburg

*         Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

*         University of South Africa (Sebina Levember)

*         University of Venda

*         Walter Sisulu University

*         University of Zululand

*         Cape Peninsula University of Technology

*         Central University of Technology

*         Durban University of Technology

*         Mangosuthu University of Technology

*         Tshwane University of Technology (Karina Schuring SchuringKH at tut.ac.za<mailto:SchuringKH at tut.ac.za>

*         Vaal University of Technology

*         Sol Plaatje University


Ina Smith
SciELO SA Planning Manager
Scholarly Publishing Unit
Academy of Science of South Africa
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From: irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za<mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za> [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] On Behalf Of Allison Fullard
Sent: 23 October 2014 06:00 PM
To: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za<mailto:irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za>
Subject: [Irtalk] Accredited OA journals by subject

Hi Colleagues

Over the past two months at UWC, Jill Claassen (Digital Scholarship Librarian) has been working with the faculty librarians to compile lists of accredited OA journals arranged by subject.  This has been seen as a useful resource for busy librarians who cannot keep tabs of all the emerging accredited OA journals in the fields they work with.

We divided up the 3 lists of accredited journals (WoS, IBSS and DHET lists), checked the journal sites to be sure that they are pure OA, not hybrid titles and then organised these by faculty and department at UWC.  While our departmental breakdown might not match yours, I'm hoping that you can tweak these files to compile a useful online resource for your own institution.  We didn't exclude any journals (even veterinary journals, which is not offered at UWC), but incorporated these into the closest disciplinary list.

You'll find:  life sciences, physical sciences, community &health sciences, arts, economic and management sciences, education, dentistry and law journals.  Each list has live links to journals, indicates when they were started and whether there are article processing charges or not.  The lists are very different in size!

Since the list is growing each year and has to be checked against the DHET indexes annually, I'm hoping that we can collaborate on such a task next year.  Please let me know if I might contact you early next year to help organise the project?

Happy OA Week all!
Best regards
Allison
PS: Paulette, as LIASA-HELIG secretary, please would you forward this to the HELIG members - much obliged!




Allison Fullard
Deputy Director: Library Services
University of the Western Cape
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