[BOAI] A Comparative Study of Scientific Journal Databases in the SSH

[Christine Kosmopoulos]

JournalBase *- *A Comparative International Study of Scientific Journal 
Databases in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH)

http://www.cybergeo.eu/index22492.html

Presented for the first time in a comparative table are the contents of 
the commercial databases that inventory the journals in the Social 
Sciences and the Humanities (SSH), of the /Web of Science/ (published by 
Thomson Reuters) and of /Scopus /(published by Elsevier), as well as of 
the non-commercial lists such as the /European Reference Index for 
Humanities /(ERIH) (published by the /European Science Foundation /and 
the French /Agence pour l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de 
l'Enseignement Supérieur /(AERES).

With some 10,000 titles, this is an almost exhaustive overview of the 
wealth of publications in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, at 
last made available in this table. The multiple assignments reveal the 
multidisciplinarity of the journals, which is quite frequent in SSH, but 
also sometimes the incoherence of databases that have not been corrected.

To get an idea of the representativeness of the OA journals, the updated 
version of July includes the information about the DOAJ.
At this stage, Open Access journals represent less than 0,4% of the 
total of the journals indexed in the four sources (Web of Science, 
Scopus, ERIH, AERES). It means that about a thousand of OA journals in 
SSH registered in the DOAJ are not included.

The final objective of this project, which concerns the entire 
international community of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, is to 
put online, in a bilingual English/French version, the database of 
/JournalBase /in interactive mode on a collaborative platform, as well 
as the final report of the study, so that the decision-makers, the 
scientists, the experts in scientific information have access to 
up-to-date information, and so that they may contribute to forward 
movement in the reflection on these questions, through the exchange of 
experiences and of good working practices.
A more completed version will be presented online in the next few months.
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