[GOAL] Submission to UGC (India) on IF, DORA and DOAJ

Sat Jul 23 14:30:05 BST 2016

Dear Sridhar,

In your arguments about the IF it may be of interest to mention the need to
“protect excellence in locally relevant research” (art.3 of the Leiden
Manifesto
<http://www.nature.com/news/bibliometrics-the-leiden-manifesto-for-research-metrics-1.17351>
)

If the 344 journals from India included in DOAJ reasonably represent OA
quality journals from India, and DOAJ ambassadors can help missing OA
quality journals from India comply with DOAJ requirements so as to be
accepted in DOAJ, then it seems to me to be a very good recommendation to
consider DOAJ when preparing the national list of OA journals from India to
be considered by authors when publishing in OA journals from India.

kind regards,

Dominique

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2016-07-21 6:50 GMT-03:00 Sridhar Gutam <gutam2000 at hotmail.com>:

> Dear All,
>
> As you may be aware that the University Grants Commission (UGC) has set up
> a committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. V.S. Chauhan, Member, UGC and
> former Director, ICGEB (New Delhi) <
> http://www.ugc.ac.in/page/commission-members.aspx> to prepare the list of
> journals in which authors should be publishing in-order to gain score for
> Academic Performance Indicators (API) system. It is reported that this
> attempt is being made to address the sub-standard publishing by the authors
> from colleges/universities. It is also mentioned in the news that they may
> use give weight-age to the journal’s Impact Factor. (Source:
> http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/tight-norms-soon-for-journal-publications/article8657169.ece
> )
>
> On the other hand earlier in December 2012, The San Francisco Declaration
> on Research Assessment (DORA) <http://www.ascb.org/dora/> an initiated by
> the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) had put forth a recommendation
> that “the need to eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as
> Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion
> considerations” and had asked the individuals and organizations to sign the
> DORA declaration <http://www.ascb.org/files/SFDeclarationFINAL.pdf>.
>
> It is seen that taking call from DORA, DBT/DST might have mentioned in
> their Open Access policy that they are not going to consider Impact Factors
> in career assessments, promotions or appointments (of individuals in
> research and academics) <
> http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/APPROVED%20OPEN%20ACCESS%20POLICY-DBT%26DST(12.12.2014)_1.pdf
> <http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/APPROVED%20OPEN%20ACCESS%20POLICY-DBT%26DST%2812.12.2014%29_1.pdf>
> >.
>
> I therefore, I would like to submit to you all my proposal of writing to
> UGC and Dr. Chauhan that as the DOAJ is improving in terms of quality and
> services, UGC may consider in giving weight-age to the DOAJ Indexed
> Journals while recommending the List of Journals and also not to consider
> Impact Factors for the assessment/appointments/promotions.
>
> Please reply with comments/suggestions.
>
> Thanking You
>
> With Kind Regards
> Sridhar
>
>
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