Overview
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science in partnership with the National Library of Serbia is organising the Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference which will be held on May 18-19, 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia.
This year conference will focus on local and regional journals striving for international excellence and recognition. It will be assisted with a powerful partnering tool to ensure networking of the visitors, before, during, and after the conference duration.
Contributions and participation from journal editors and publishers, science managers and administrators, research evaluators, librarians, information systems developers, and all others interested in issues listed in programme are very welcome. Especially welcome are papers addressing evaluation and quality issues of journal publishing in developing, transition, and emerging market countries.
Topics
The presentations should be devoted, but not necessarily restricted to one of the following broad topics:
(1) Strategic Issues of Journals Publishing in Developing and Transition Countries
Role of local/national journals in the R&D strategies of developing and transition countries (DTC); Journals sponsors and publishers,
contributors and consumers; Orientation dilemma: Contributing to national performance or to local professionalism; Economic models:
Can Open Access be sustainable, is author-paid system viable; Problems of low budgeting: Is there room for marketing and advertising;
DTC journals development process: Is internationalization a must; International co-authorship and citation exchange; Standards and
practices: Publishing languages, paper formats, citation styles.
(2) Ethical Dimension of Publishing
Publication misconduct in DTC journals; Roots of plagiarism in DTC publishing: Cultural patterns, language barriers, career pressure, law
risk of sanctions; Effectiveness of self-regulatory bodies in DT countries: Committees vs. offices of research integrity; Should criteria for
cut-and-paste plagiarism in DTC journals be more liberal; Fighting translation/bilingual plagiarism; Whistle blowing in DTC research
communities; Practices and technologies used to prevent misconduct; Misconduct as a cross-border spillover phenomenon.
(3) Local and Regional Journals Evaluation
Visibility, full-text availability and impact; Impact Factor of "non-indexed" journals; Other-than-impact journals indicators; Role of national
and regional citation databases; Open citation indexes: Potentials of Google Scholar; The role of global citation indexes (WoS and Scopus)
in DTC journals development; International aggregators admission criteria; Measuring quality of social sciences and humanities journals:
The purpose of ERIC.
(4) Technologies to Support High-Quality Journal Publishing
Online journal management systems; PKP Open journal systems; To migrate or not to migrate to digital-only; Innovative services
supporting editorial process; Open review; Collaborative peer review; International integration: The real use from CrossRef system;
Thesaurus-based automatic keyphrase indexing; Technologies of references standardization; Proofreading and editing services;
Destigmatization of publishing in small journals: Attracting high-quality papers and authors; Providing qualified reviewers for papers
published in small languages.
(5) Open Access in Developing and Transition Countries
Are DT countries OA beneficiaries; The role of OA journals in raising national performance; Visibility and usability of OA individual
journal archives/websites; OA journals databases vs. OA institutional repositories; Effectivity of various types of OA: Gold vs. green,
preprints vs. post-prints; Policies mandating OA to publicly funded research; Predatory OA journals.
Who to attend
The conference is equally open to the researchers, professionals, OA activists, teachers and students of various profiles, including journal editors and publishers, science managers and administrators, research evaluators, librarians, and information systems developers.
We especially welcome guests from South-East Europe. They will have an opportunity to attend the Start-up Meeting of South East European Research Integrity and Integration Society (SEERIIuS) to be held as a part of conference.
Deadline: 25 February 2012
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