[IRTalk] DOAJ journals - download & use in Excel

Fri Jun 1 14:09:16 SAST 2018

Dear Inna,

Thank you very much for your clarification, I shall find out what went
wrong on our side and I will consult Solomon  Mekonnen (copied above) the
coordinator of DOAJ for East African for further guidance.

Regards,

Paul Muneja

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:

> Dear Paul & Nason
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> Thank you so much.
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> Paul – if there are no Tanzanian journals on DOAJ, it can mean different
> things:
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> 1.    No journals from Tanzania have applied to be evaluated, or they
> have applied, but were rejected because of not adhering to the criteria.
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> 2.    There are no Open Access in journals in Tanzania?
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> Hopefully – with more awareness created, this can be rectified.
>
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> 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:
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>
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> 1.    It has been evaluated, but did not adhere, or are predatory if not
> on the DOAJ.
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> 2.    It still needs to apply for evaluation.
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> 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.
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> Black lists or predatory lists are not sustainable, and often dependent on
> the evaluation of one evaluator only – not acceptable.
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> 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.
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>
> Kind regards
>
> Ina
>
>
>
> *From:* IRTalk [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] *On Behalf Of *Nason
> Bimbe
> *Sent:* Friday, June 1, 2018 12:30 PM
> *To:* pmuneja at gmail.com
> *Cc:* irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za; solomon at doaj.org
> *Subject:* Re: [IRTalk] DOAJ journals - download & use in Excel
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>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Nason Bimbe
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> Tel. +44 (0)7535 250339
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> Email. nasonbimbe at gmail.com
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> Skype. bimben
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> Twitter. @nbimbe
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> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-5029
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> https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=khgE0JYAAAAJ&hl=en
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> https://www.linkedin.com/in/nason-bimbe-a685567/
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> On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 09:47, Paul Muneja <pmuneja at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Inna,
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>
>
>  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
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> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Kelemwork Kassahun <kelemwork.kassahun@
> bothouniversity.ac.bw> wrote:
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> 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> 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> 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*
> >>
> >> Project Manager: African Open Science Platform
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