This year conference will focus on local and regional journals striving for international excellence and recognition. It will be assisted with a powerful partnering tool to ensure networking of the visitors, before, during, and after the conference duration.

Contributions and participation from journal editors and publishers, science managers and administrators, research evaluators, librarians, information systems developers, and all others interested in issues listed in programme are very welcome. Especially welcome are papers addressing evaluation and quality issues of journal publishing in developing, transition, and emerging market countries.

Programme

Topics

The presentations should be devoted, but not necessarily restricted to one of the following broad topics:

(1) Strategic Issues of Journals Publishing in Developing and Transition Countries

• Role of local/national journals in the R&D strategies of developing and transition countries (DTC); Journals sponsors and publishers, contributors and consumers; Orientation dilemma: Contributing to national performance or to local professionalism; Economic models: Can Open Access be sustainable, is author-paid system viable; Problems of low budgeting: Is there room for marketing and advertising; DTC journals development process: Is internationalization a must; International co-authorship and citation exchange; Standards and practices: Publishing languages, paper formats, citation styles.

(2) Ethical Dimension of Publishing

• Publication misconduct in DTC journals; Roots of plagiarism in DTC publishing: Cultural patterns, language barriers, career pressure, law risk of sanctions; Effectiveness of self-regulatory bodies in DT countries: Committees vs. offices of research integrity; Should criteria for cut-and-paste plagiarism in DTC journals be more liberal; Fighting translation/bilingual plagiarism; Whistle blowing in DTC research communities; Practices and technologies used to prevent misconduct; Misconduct as a cross-border spillover phenomenon.

(3) Local and Regional Journals Evaluation

• Visibility, full-text availability and impact; Impact Factor of "non-indexed" journals; Other-than-impact journals indicators; Role of national and regional citation databases; Open citation indexes: Potentials of Google Scholar; The role of global citation indexes (WoS and Scopus) in DTC journals development; International aggregators admission criteria; Measuring quality of social sciences and humanities journals: The purpose of ERIC.

(4) Technologies to Support High-Quality Journal Publishing

• Online journal management systems; PKP Open journal systems; To migrate or not to migrate to digital-only; Innovative services supporting editorial process; Open review; Collaborative peer review; International integration: The real use from CrossRef system; Thesaurus-based automatic keyphrase indexing; Technologies of references standardization; Proofreading and editing services; Destigmatization of publishing in small journals: Attracting high-quality papers and authors; Providing qualified reviewers for papers published in small languages.

(5) Open Access in Developing and Transition Countries

• Are DT countries OA beneficiaries; The role of OA journals in raising national performance; Visibility and usability of OA individual journal archives/websites; OA journals databases vs. OA institutional repositories; Effectivity of various types of OA: Gold vs. green, preprints vs. post-prints; Policies mandating OA to publicly funded research; Predatory OA journals.

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Further information

Contact: nikola@ceon.rs

Important dates:  

• First day of conference: May 18, 2012
• Abstract submission deadline: February 25, 2012
• Abstract notification of acceptance/rejection: February 29, 2012
• Early bird registration deadline: March 10, 2012
• Full papers submission deadline: March 25, 2012
• Full papers notification of acceptance/rejection: April 5, 2012
• Short/Poster papers submission deadline: April 15, 2012
• Short/Poster papers notification of acceptance/rejection: April 20, 2012
• Author registration deadline: April 30, 2012
• Camera ready full papers deadline (at least one author must register): May 5, 2012
• Camera ready posters papers deadline (at least one author must register): May 10, 2012
• CrossRef Satellite Workshop: May 17, 2012

 Date:
From: 18 May 2012
To: 19 May 2012