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OJS journals in Brazil: 

considerations for increased impact and visibility

Edilson Damasio, MsC.

Librarian /

Bibliotecário – Maringá State University Press -UEM/Eduem

edilsondamasio@gmail.comDAMASIO, E., Sept../2011

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• Londrina State University-UEL-1990-1997• Maringá State University-UEM-1997-• Knowledge Portal– ANVISA- National Agency for

Surveillance -2002-2003• Software Openbiblio• Pan-American Health Organization

(Bireme/Opas/Oms)-2002-2003 *organization that manages the SciELO/Fapesp

• Scientific production (indexing) UEM - 2000-2007• Capes Portal (15.000 journals) capacitation for

researcher in UEM-2002-2006• Team (CEDUS) – ECA/USP(São Paulo University)

ACTIVITIES

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• Researcher (GETSEAM) – UEM• Librarian Eduem (Publisher) 2007-• Scientific Journals of UEM 2006- (OJS 2.1.1.0)• OJS Capacitation for publishers in Brazil (UEM)

2007-• Journals indexing suport and manager (20

journals.UEM)-2007-• DOI (Digital Object Identifier) activation (UEM)-

2008- pioneer in Brazil, 3.500 activated- for Journals articles and Conferences

ACTIVITIES

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• Visibility maping of UEM Journals – OJS• Internacionalization of scientific production• Impact Factor mapping – ISI-WOS (Acta

Scientiarum Journals) - 8 journals• Impact Factor mapping – SCOPUS (Scimago-

SIR)• Process indexing manager (UEM journals)

WOS/Scopus/SciELO – 9 journals• InCITES studies – Thomson Reuters• e-books best practices member – CrossRef

ACTIVITIES

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-28 journals- 570 issues- 5.000 articles publ.- 14.000 articles sist.- 23.000 users- 1.100 articles (editorial

flow)-3.500 articles with DOI-5.000 access/day (Brazil/USA/UE)-articles with 10.000 downloads-PDF

OJS 2.3.6.0

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-8 journals (vol. 33)- 2 JCR- 2 WoS- 6 Scopus- 1 SciELO- CAB; BA; CAS; AGRIS; MLA

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Open Access and indexing Increased impact and visibilityBrazilian policies for OJSIndexing criterious (WOS, Scopus, SciELO)Statistics reports selected journalsWhy the motives?Examples?Important results

Objectives

CrossRef

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• Basical criterious for databases indexing, is the access and citations

• OA is available

• The content is important also, and the responsibility is to the revievers and editores

• Visibility and impact are also conditioned to content and its indexing in scientific databases

Open Access and Indexing

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• IBICT-Brazilian Institute for Technology and Scientific Information (2003-present)

• Indicated methodology for publication –Capes - Brazilian Agency for Improvement Higher Education (2006-)

• SciELO – the OJS utilized for (editorial flow) with name “submission” (2008-)

• IBICT implemens courses for universities• Various universities implant this OJS Journals in a Portal• In the universities the capacitations is constant• Traditional journals transfer to OJS yours on-line

publications• Editorial teams is capacitated by the editors and staff

(sections editors, reviewers)• 2010 National meeting for OJS users – UFSC -

Florianópolis

OJS in Brazil – polices, methodology and history

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• 1.650 journals with OJS software (total)• IBICT – distance education for new institutional

users• Brazil improved in ranking for scientific production

in 5 years• The policies for OJS in institutional Portals is

important (55 universities Portals)

OJS in Brazil – now (2011)

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• many factors • including the journal's content• focus • format• adherence to publication schedule• and geographic origin • important consideration is the journal's citation

record • how often the journal is cited • which journals are citing it, etc.

Web of Science basics criterious and Open Access

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Geographic

Impact

Journal live

Articles with

visibility content

Articles with

citations

Journal are

indexed in others

Impact Factor

(Web of Knowledg

e)

International

Editorial board

(editors, reviewers, autors)

International

publishers

partners

INDEXINGImportant criterious WoS/Scopus

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International authors Not regionalism

WOS (JCR after 1 or 2 years of

citations)

Many years of planning, before submission for

evaluation

Importat:- DOI• DOAJ

indexing• Scopus,, all

years (Sept. 30, deadlyne)

•http://info.scopus.com

•http://science.thomsonreuters.com/

INDEXINGImportant criterious WoS/Scopus

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Case (Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy) – OJS – 5 years

BEFORE AFTER

1 year (2 issues) not regular Quarterly (al issues 2011)

50 articles in flow 250 articles in flow

Portuguese language Only english (American Journals Experts)

18 % rejected articles 60 % rejected articles

Regionalism Brazilian scientific production

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Case (Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy) – OJS – 5 years

BEFORE AFTER

7 indexing databases in agricultural, chemical

Web of Science; JCR; Scopus; SciELO

Access in the institutional homepage (OA)

Access in OJS Institutional Portal

Print On-line / Print / Open Access

Regional access Brazil/USA/EU

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Case (Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy) – OJS – 5 years

BEFORE AFTER

Not perspectives for planning Internacionalization (focus)

Costs (not provided) Institutional costs and (2 promotion brazilian agencies)

Published in basic homepage DOI all articles (2003- ) with interoperability

Not provided time for publication

6 mounths to publication

Publish or Perish JCR 0.805

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Brazilians Journals in JCR Science Edition (ISI Web of Knowledge)

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

16 17 2127 28

65

89

journals

journals

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• The OJS improvement the publications• The editorial flow is easy and functional• Possibility to work (editors; reviewers) different

countries• The time of editorial flow is very important• The management of journals is easely with OJS• This visibility is a consequence of optimal

management• Indexing in most important databases is a

consequence of optimal management

Conclusions

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• The UEM-Universidade Estadual de Maringá OJS Portal is reference in Brazil (indexing and visibility with publications) http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs

• OJS is a Systems for publishers• The integration to OAI-PMH is essential, and OJS

promote us• OJS allows these possibilities and more

Conclusions

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Paul Otlet (Le Monde, 1934)-knowledge

network linking

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Edilson Damasio, MsC.

Librarian, Maringá State University Press – Eduem – UEM - Brazil• edamasio@uem.br • edilsondamasio@gmail.com

• BLOG: http://edilsondamasio.blogspot.com

Thank You!