<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Dear Ina,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I have taken some time to go through the list.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I will like caution all that there are some questionable Journals (Don't want to use "Predatory" Journals). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Examples are "Journal of Advocacy, Research and Education" published by KAD International in Ghana and Chinese Medical Journal published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications in India ( could be a hijacked journal).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Thank you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Harris.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#0b5394"><span style="font-size:small">------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></font></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#444444"><i>"The person who is willing to say 'Yes' to greater knowledge and experience may be the person who is equipping himself or herself to discover new frontiers." ~Sir John Templeton</i></font><br><br><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#444444">Harris Andoh,PhD<br>CSIR- Science and Technology Policy Research Institute(STEPRI)<br>P. O. Box CT. 519 ,Cantonments - Accra.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#444444"><a href="http://www.csir-stepri.org" target="_blank">www.csir-stepri.org</a></font></div><div><font color="#6aa84f" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Ina Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"><a href="https://doaj.org/" target="_blank">DOAJ</a> 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">It is easy to see
<b>exactly which journals are from which country, from which discipline</b>, at any time, by downloading it in Excel from the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Use the functions in Excel to sort data/clean as you wish, and more.
<a href="http://openrefine.org/" target="_blank">OpenRefine</a> also an option to clean/manipulate data.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Please encourage scholarly publication journals – especially from Africa – to consider
<a href="https://doaj.org/application/new" target="_blank">applying</a> for evaluation and inclusion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Ina<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Ina Smith</span></b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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