[IRTalk] DOAJ journals - download & use in Excel

Fri Jun 1 14:34:20 SAST 2018

Dear Paul,

There are no Journals from Tanzania which are indexed in DOAJ . I have
not also received any Journal applications from Tanzania.Please share
the following information about DOAJ to your colleagues in Tanzania.

Our website : https://doaj.org/
About DOAJ: https://doaj.org/about
Publisher information: https://doaj.org/publishers
New application: https://doaj.org/application/new
FAQs: https://doaj.org/faq
Our Best Practice: https://doaj.org/bestpractice
DOAJ Best Practice guide: https://www.doajbestpracticeguide.org/

Please let me know, if you need any help on this and you may also
share my contact to Journals and publishers in your country.

Warm regards,

Solomon

On 6/1/18, Paul Muneja <pmuneja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Tel. +44 (0)7535 250339
>>
>> Email. nasonbimbe at gmail.com
>>
>> Skype. bimben
>>
>> Twitter. @nbimbe
>>
>> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-5029
>>
>> https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=khgE0JYAAAAJ&hl=en
>>
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/nason-bimbe-a685567/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 09:47, Paul Muneja <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@
>> 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> 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
>> >> <http://africanopenscience.org.za/>
>> >> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
>> >> DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region
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>> >>
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