[IRTalk] DOAJ journals - download & use in Excel

Fri Jun 1 13:39:47 SAST 2018

Dear Paul & Nason

Thank you so much.

Paul – if there are no Tanzanian journals on DOAJ, it can mean different things:

1.    No journals from Tanzania have applied to be evaluated, or they have applied, but were rejected because of not adhering to the criteria.

2.    There are no Open Access in journals in Tanzania?

Hopefully – with more awareness created, this can be rectified.

DOAJ is the original and trusted list of high quality Open Access journals. We recommend using DOAJ as point of departure, and not any other lists. Often – if the journal is not listed it can also be because of many things:

1.    It has been evaluated, but did not adhere, or are predatory if not on the DOAJ.

2.    It still needs to apply for evaluation.

The DOAJ team are experts across disciplines, and also rely on the community to make sure only trusted high quality Open Access journals are listed, all being watch dogs.

Black lists or predatory lists are not sustainable, and often dependent on the evaluation of one evaluator only – not acceptable.

Thank you for assisting with populating DOAJ with making sure only trusted journals are included. We all need to be constantly aware of fraud within the digital environment.

Kind regards
Ina

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Subject: Re: [IRTalk] DOAJ journals - download & use in Excel

Dear Paul,
The list is actually a data dump from DOAJ therefore for Tanzanian journals to be on this list, they have to be registered with DOAJ. Having your journals in DOAJ helps with their discovery and more importantly creates the trust with the would be audience.

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Nason Bimbe

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 09:47, Paul Muneja <pmuneja at gmail.com<mailto:pmuneja at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Inna,

 Thank you once again for sharing the list that contains 11,544 trusted, open access scholarly journals,  I have gone through the list and discovered that Tanzania is not included, could you please update?

Regards,

Paul Muneja

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Kelemwork Kassahun <kelemwork.kassahun at bothouniversity.ac.bw<mailto:kelemwork.kassahun at bothouniversity.ac.bw>> wrote:
Dear  Ina

Thank you very much. This is a very important information for our
researchers and even for academic libraries.

Beset Regards

On 5/30/18, Paul Muneja <pmuneja at gmail.com<mailto:pmuneja at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Inna,
>
> Thank you very much for sharing the list. It is very useful when accessing
> our journals.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Muneja
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:Ina at assaf.org.za>> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>>
>>
>> DOAJ <https://doaj.org/> provides a list of trusted, open access
>> scholarly journals (11 544) from across the world, and from different
>> disciplines. Journal Editors are encouraged to submit their journals for
>> evaluation, and researchers and librarians are encouraged to use this
>> list
>> as a valuable resource to identify journals to publish with, but also to
>> find information from to advance further research.
>>
>>
>>
>> It is easy to see *exactly which journals are from which country, from
>> which discipline*, at any time, by downloading it in Excel from the
>> following:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://doaj.org/csv (the file is updated every 30 minutes)
>>
>>
>>
>> Use the functions in Excel to sort data/clean as you wish, and more.
>> OpenRefine <http://openrefine.org/> also an option to clean/manipulate
>> data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please encourage scholarly publication journals – especially from Africa
>> –
>> to consider applying <https://doaj.org/application/new> for evaluation
>> and inclusion.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Ina
>>
>>
>>
>> *Ina Smith*
>>
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>> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
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