[GOAL] Request Your Help for an open access study on non-English-language journals

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

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Jean-Claude Guédon 

Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal




Le vendredi 11 mars 2016 à 12:04 +0200, Cenyu Shen a écrit :

> Dear recipient,
> 
> We have started a study to look at a subset of Open Access scholarly  
> journal publishing, which we feel has been overlooked in much of the  
> published research, namely OA journals published in other languages  
> than English. We include both newly started electronic only OA  
> journals, as well as older print journals that have started to make  
> the e-version free. The vast majority of these probably don?t charge  
> authors. There are a number of reasons there have been few results  
> about the overall extent of such publishing etc. One is that many  
> leading researchers come from countries where English is the main  
> language, and many studies have from the start been restricted to such  
> only journals publishing in English, in order to facilitate the  
> gathering of data. Another is that non-English journals are likely to  
> be underrepresented in all the available indexes, including the DOAJ.
> 
> We have so far indentified two easy ways to find information about  
> such journals. The first is using DOAJ and its search facilities. The  
> second one is using the OA journal portals we are aware of, such as  
> Scielo, J-stage, doiSerbia etc. In addition to this there are many  
> countries, which don?t have such portals and we would like also to get  
> information from those. For this purpose we try to contact experts who  
> we believe have good knowledge of the situation in their countries and  
> could provide us links to list of all reputable scholarly journals in  
> their country, lists of OA journals etc.
> 
> Countries which interest us in particular are: Canada, Most European  
> countries (except the UK) and including Russia, Francophone countries  
> in Africa, Middle East and Asian Countries.
> 
> We will use three ways to contact volunteers who can help us:
> 
> Contact with the management of DOAJ and its voluntary editorial staff
> An email to The Global Open Access List (GOAL)
> Direct e-mail to people we know
> 
> If you feel you are in a position to provide us information, please  
> contact us by e-mail
> 
> Cenyu Shen, Ph.D. Student
> Principal researcher
> Cenyu.Shen at hanken.fi
> 
> Bo-Christer Björk, Professor
> Bo-Christer.Bjork at hanken.fi
> 
> Mikael Laakso, Assistant Professor
> Mikael.Laakso at hanken.fi
> 
> Information Systems Science
> Dept. of Management and Organisation
> Hanken School of Economics
> P.O. Box 479, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
> 
> 
> 
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