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[BOAI] OA Day at the University of Pretoria Library

From: Peter Suber <peters AT earlham.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:05:04 -0400

[Forwarding from Monica Hammes. --Peter Suber.] 1. As part of its OA Day celebrations (http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/oaday.htm) the University of Pretoria Library Services launched its list of Accredited Open Access Journals South Africa (AOAJSA) (http://www.library.up.ac.za/aoajsa.htm) . The 600 titles are all listed in one or more of the following and hence qualify for the South African Department of Education's university subsidy scheme: Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science Arts & Humanities Citation Index IBSS Journal List DoE List of Accredited South African Journals In South Africa university researchers will not publish in open access journals unless they are also seen to be reputable and the publication fee is affordable. Accreditation by the DoE is viewed a basic indicator of a journal's reputation and publishing in one of these journals will earn the university and the researcher some money. 2. We also decided to use the annual OA Day to review the progress that we are making with open access and have created an OA Scorecard (http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/scorecard.htm). Regards Monica

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