Open Access Journals: Nature, Policies, and Evaluation Criteria

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Library of Congress, Overseas Cairo Office

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The research aims to identify the rules and criteria for including open access journals in journal directories and reference citation databases. This will be achieved through several sub-objectives: monitoring the significance of scientific and open access publishing, examining the economic drivers behind the shift towards open access, exploring economic models for open access journals, and establishing criteria for evaluating these journals. The study focuses specifically on two databases and directories: the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus, and the Web of Science.
Key conditions and standards identified include the requirement for scientific peer review, the assignment of an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), Scoops singled out some criteria such as: the lifespan of the league, the title of the patrol, the source of the periodic income and additional criteria for inclusion.
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Open Access - Open Access Journals - Scientific Publishing - Criteria for Evaluating Open Access Journals - Scopus - Web of Science - DOAJ

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