Calendar: First Quarter 2022 Training Schedule
AJOL, ASSAf, DOAJ, EIFL, LIBSENSE AND UCT INITIATIVE FOR AFRICAN JOURNAL EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS
Calling African open access journal editors and publishers! Joint webinar series run by AJOL, ASSAf, DOAJ, EIFL, LIBSENSE and UCT on Thursdays at 10:00 GMT from February 10th to March 24th, 2022. Unless otherwise indicated, the first part of each webinar will be offered in English and there will be a switch to the French language for the second part.
Tom Olijhoek and Judith Barnsby (DOAJ) will talk on why it is important to be indexed in DOAJ and how to get indexed, including open access compliance, the journal application process and submission form, DOAJ criteria for inclusion and common reasons for rejection.
Date and time: Thursday, 10 Feb at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
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Louise van Heerden, Susan Veldsman (ASSAf) and Susan Murray (AJOL) will talk about editorial processes: peer review, editorial quality, editorial board, routinely screening article submissions for plagiarism and business models. Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) framework and evaluations will also be presented and discussed. Presentations will be in English with French subtitles
Date and time: 17 Feb at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
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Tom Olijhoek and Judith Barnsby (DOAJ) will talk about the copyright licensing issues in African applications to DOAJ. Susan Murray (AJOL) will explain and encourage using Creative Commons licenses to avoid these issues.
Date and time: 24 Feb at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
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Ina Smith (ASSAf) and Thomas Mboa (University of Yaoundé II) will talk about Open Access and Archiving policies, DOIs, ORCIDs and other persistent identities, how the journal could comply with I4OC standards for open citations, etc.
Date and time: 3 March at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
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Speakers and facilitators: Bessem Aamira (CNUDST), Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Lena Nyahodza (UCT), Louise van Heerden (ASSAf - SciELO SA), Susan Murray (AJOL) and Ina Smith (ASSAf). Presentations and discussions in English and French languages.
Date and time: 10 March at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
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Tom Olijhoek (DOAJ), Susan Veldsman (ASSAf) and African editors will explain how they are implementing strong quality screening policies and workflows.
Date and time: 17 March at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
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Tom Olijhoek (DOAJ) and Thomas Mboa (University of Yaoundé II) will emphasize current DORA developments to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment and the role African open access journals play in this process.
Date and time: 24 March at 10:00 GMT (duration: 1.5 hour).
Registration: Please register here