The DOAJ Ambassador Programme: an example project for promoting cognitive justice in the Global South
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The DOAJ Ambassador Programme: an example project for promoting cognitive justice in the Global South
- 1. The DOAJ Ambassador Programme: an example project for promoting cognitive justice in the Global South ELPUB 2018 June 23, 2018 Barbara Porrett, DOAJ Ambassador Barbara@doaj.org 1
- 2. • What is the Directory of Open Access Journals? • What are the DOAJ’s criteria for quality open access publishing? • What is cognitive injustice? • What is the DOAJ’s role in combating cognitive injustice? • Why an Ambassador programme? • What are the programme results? • Conclusion Presentation Overview 2
- 3. • a whitelist of over 11,000 OA scholarly journals • curates OA titles in all disciplines and languages • free to users and publishers • funded by donations • aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access academic journals What is the DOAJ? 3
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- 5. A situation, phenomenon, a policy or attitude that prevents students and researchers to deploy the full potential of their research capacity in service to local sustainable development. Source: Piron, F., Regulus, S., and Dibounje Madiba, M. S. (Éd.). (2016). Justice cognitive, libre accès et savoirs locaux. Pour une science ouverte juste, au service du développement local durable Québec: Éditions science et bien commun. Retrieved from https://scienceetbiencommun.pressbooks.pub/justicecognitive1/. What is Cognitive Injustice? 5
- 6. •to facilitate access to accredited OA journals from the Global South •to promote publication and usage of local knowledge. •to disseminate information about OA to Southern scholars and publishers •to decrease the risk of publication with questionable publishers •to support publishers in the Global South to publish OA •to deliver the above through local peers DOAJ’s role in combating cognitive injustice? 6
- 7. • A unique programme partially funded for one year by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC Canada) • Ambassadors from the Global South were hired and trained - to evaluate applications rec’d from OA publishers - to solicit applications from acceptable journal publishers - to communicate and support OA publishers who wish to be listed in the DOAJ - to advocate use of DOAJ by academic community and publishers - to promote best publishing practices - to collaborate with the DOAJ on a Best Practice Guide Why an Ambassador programme? 7
- 8. •Visibility of OA journals from the Global South has improved. •Knowledge about and infrastructure to support OA publishing in the South has been enhanced. •Usage of the DOAJ has increased in the Global South. potentially lowering the risk of researchers from the South publishing with questionable publishers. •A DOAJ Best Practice Guide and other web resources are available in local languages. What are the programme’s results? 8
- 9. •Participation and contributions of the Ambassadors were critical for the success of the programme. •Knowledge of the local context and local contacts were essential prerequisites. •Ambassadors understood the local perceptions of OA and disseminate information that is sensitive to regional cultures and local requirements. •Communication has taken place in local languages. •The programme has enabled DOAJ’s efforts to combat cognitive injustice. Conclusion 9
- 10. DOAJ Gold Sponsor: Thank you Special thanks to all the Libraries, Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers, and to our Sponsors for their financial support. 10
Hinweis der Redaktion
- I would like to start with a brief introduction to the Directory of Open Access Journals, the DOAJ, and the concept of cognitive injustice. Then I will speak about the Ambassador programme and its contributions toward combating cognitive injustice in the Global South.
- What is the Directory of Open Access Journals? The DOAJ is an online directory and a white rather than a blacklist, that indexes and provides access to over 11,000 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. It is a community curated list of OA journal titles across all disciplines and languages. Directory services are free of charge to users and publishers. Services include free metadata. The DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 50% of which comes from sponsors and the other 50% from members including publisher members. The Directory aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access academic journals—regardless of size and country of origin—thereby promoting their visibility, usage and impact.
- What are the DOAJ’s criteria for quality open access publishing and inclusion in the Directory? The DOAJ, along with the Committee on Publication Ethics, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and the World Association of Medical Editors have developed Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. The Directory uses these principles as criteria for the selection of titles to be included in the DOAJ along with requiring that readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles published in the journal, or use them for any other lawful purpose. Articles are to be full open access without an embargo.
- What is cognitive injustice? Global scientific publishing, including open access publishing, is heavily biased towards journals and authors from the Global North. This has resulted in a knowledge gap between the South and the North. It has led to a situation where scientific knowledge from the Global South is very much underrepresented in the collective scientific output worldwide: a problem which has been described as cognitive injustice. A situation, phenomenon, a policy or attitude that prevents students and researchers to deploy the full potential of their research capacity in service to local sustainable development. Unfortunately this situation is not helped by the fact that many questionable publishers are based in countries in the Global South.
- What is the DOAJ’s role in combating cognitive injustice? The Directory contains entries from many countries but it was recognized that journals from the Global South were, before this project got underway, underrepresented. If the Directory is to claim to be the comprehensive global whitelist of trustworthy open access journals for authors, researchers, librarians and publishers, a greater number of reputable journals from the South needed to be included. It was also appreciated that contributing to awareness of open access, OA’s benefits for the sharing of local knowledge and best open access publishing practises needed to be disseminated and supported among scholars and publishers in the Global South. The anticipated impact of these measures was to decrease the victimization of Southern researchers by questionable publishers and to help combat cognitive injustice. And the most effective way to accomplish this would be through local peers: scholars, librarians, informatics specialists and members of the publishing industry located in the South.
- The programme, which was funded for a year by IDRC, the International Development Research Centre, enabled the DOAJ to hire and train Ambassadors from the South to Evaluate applications rec’d from OA publishers to the DOAJ in their region Solicit applications from acceptable journal publishers Communicate and support OA publishers who wish to be listed in the DOAJ Advocate use of DOAJ by the academic community and publishers Promote best publishing practices with regional publishers and identify questionable publishing practices and Collaborate with the DOAJ on a Best Practice Guide The DOAJ currently has 23 Ambassadors worldwide located in Latin America, Africa & the Middle East, India China, Indonesia and additional countries in South East Asia and Russia. Their positions and backgrounds are purposely quite diverse: a PhD student, librarians, professors and an informatics specialists are on the team. They range in age from 30 to 60 and there are 12 women and 11 men.
- What are the programme’s results? During the period from June 2016 to July 2017 over 3,000 OA journal applications from the Global South were reviewed by the Ambassadors. The impact of this has been to increase the number of OA journals from the South in the Directory and thus enhance their visibility to the research community. Over 100 contributions and presentations have been made by the Ambassadors at conferences and events, and Ambassadors have met and shared best practice knowledge with numerous OA publishers. These initiatives have enhanced the knowledge, skills and infrastructure around OA. For example, the Ambassadors’ workshops, webinars and personal advice have helped to improve editorial practices among OA journal editorial teams. Usage of the DOAJ from the South has also increased, potentially lower the risk of Southern researchers publishing in questionable journals.. Finally, the Ambassadors and the DOAJ team are increasing awareness and uptake of best practice with online resources. The DOAJ Best Practice Guide provides information about best practice in scholarly publishing and guidance on how to identify questionable publishing practice. This and other resources are available on the DOAJ website in local languages.
- In conclusion, the participation of local Ambassadors has been critical to the programme’s efforts to combat cognitive injustice. Knowledge of the local context and contacts with the regional academic community, government and publishers were essential prerequisites. The Ambassadors have developed an accurate understanding of how OA journal publication was perceived in their countries. With this knowledge they have been able to disseminate information about open access that was sensitive to regional culture and local requirements. Most critically, communication was done in local languages. This, we suggest, facilitated the project’s rapid progress.. Awareness of open access has increased worldwide. The Ambassador programme has contributed to this by enabled the DOAJ to enhance its role as a key piece of the infrastructure supporting OA. The Directory is now a more complete whitelist of reputable OA journals and the DOAJ team’s efforts to support OA in the South are making a not insignificant contribution toward combating cognitive injustice in the Global South.