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

[Pierre Mounier]

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Pierre Mounier
Directeur adjoint au développement international - OpenEdition
Associate Director for international development - OpenEdition

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon <
jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Do not forget Redalyc in Mexico.
>
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
>
> Professeur titulaire
> Littérature comparée
> Université de Montréal
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>
> 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 researcherCenyu.Shen at hanken.fi
>
> Bo-Christer Björk, ProfessorBo-Christer.Bjork at hanken.fi
>
> Mikael Laakso, Assistant ProfessorMikael.Laakso at hanken.fi
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> Information Systems Science
> Dept. of Management and Organisation
> Hanken School of Economics
> P.O. Box 479, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
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