Revistas cientificas & acceso abierto

Se exponen en profundidad algunas de las características de Open Journal Systems para la gestión de revistas en formato electrónico: gestión de acceso y políticas de copyright, importación y exportación de metadatos, indexación, gestión de citas bibliográficas, etc.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) es un sistema de administración y publicación de revistas y documentos periódicos (seriados) en Internet. Es una iniciativa del Public Knowledge Project, liberada bajo licencia GNU General Public License que busca facilitar el desarrollo de publicaciones de acceso abierto (Open Access).

La publicación de revistas científicas se rige por un modelo de gestión que controla múltiples procesos y roles, y que influye en la calidad de los contenidos publicados. En este artículo describimos las ventajas que conlleva el uso de las recientes aplicaciones informáticas para la gestión de revistas científicas,analizando su aportación en diferentes aspectos queayudan a mejorar la calidad de las mismas (agilidad en la gestión, normalización, visibilidad, impacto y otros valores añadidos). Por último, presentamos varias pautas que deben ser tenidas en cuenta a la hora de elegir una de estas aplicaciones, así como una breve descripción de las más utilizadas, tanto gratuitas(que en muchas ocasiones trabajan con software libre)como comerciales.

The days when scientists used to go to the library to manually look for journal articles of their interest are long gone. Looking through dozens of physical journals or consulting literature overviews in book format became obsolete with the dawn of the electronic era and the availability of searchable online listings of all that journal information. Nowadays more than 400 online Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) services provide these search capabilities for the various disciplines and research areas.

Although this section is titled, "work with indexing" it refers to both indexes as well as to coverage in other types of databases. Being included and/or indexed in key databases is extremely important. Inclusion in the best indexing services such as e.g. MEDLINE for medical journals and ERIH for humanities journals signals to authors that this is a journal of high scholarly standards. Inclusion also increases the Journal's visibility (see also Section 4.5 Ensure impact). Many indexing organs do not evaluate a journal until it has been published for some time. In addition, if the quality is not up to their standards they will not include the Journal in their database. All indexing and database services have different criteria for acceptance and so applying for inclusion in them is a meticulous and continuous task. It is recommendable to create a short strategy for indexing and database coverage. This might involve applying first to these databases and indexes that are most likely to accept the journal and then applying to other services as the journal gains content and prestige. If you are in doubt about where your journal ought to be indexed or covered, visit journals in your field and similar fields to build a list of possible arenas. Below we have prepared a short list of some of the most common and important databases and indexes to consider. Applying for an impact factor can be handled by the Chief Editor or by the Editorial Secretary/Managing Editor with support from the Chief Editor.

The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls

Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it

The makers of Turnitin, the anti-plagiarism software used to screen student papers (and now college application essays), has announced a new service to help scholarly journals detect plagiarism in submitted articles

US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Will the move to Open access, Open peer review and the Plos one "no selection bias policy" lead to the downfall of the impact factor of journals? Will we finally move on to use the citation index of actual papers as the golden standard for academic performance?

Las revistas de acceso abierto, donde todo el mundo puede leer los artículos gratis, necesitan una fuente de financiación y la fuente más obvia son los propios autores. El autor investiga, escribe el artículo, formatea el artículo con el estilo de la revista y paga todos los gastos una vez que el artículo ha sido aceptado tras una revisión por pares. El "pagar por publicar" es un ejemplo de un remedio peor que la enfermedad, al menos en matemáticas. ¿Qué pasa cuando una revista no tiene suficientes artículos aceptados como para financiar todos sus gastos? O quiebra, o acepta más de la cuenta…

Solo el 10% de los artículos científicos se publican en revistas de acceso gratuito (Open Access), pero el 90% de los científicos cree que el acceso gratuito es beneficioso para la ciencia. 

¿Un excesivo celo en la Propiedad Intelectual puede convertirse en una barrera para el desarrollo de la ciencia y de la libre circulación de ideas? Con la bibliotecóloga y especialista en gestión del conocimiento, Alejandra Rojas, abordamos ese cuestionamiento a través del movimiento Open Access (Acceso Abierto) y la revisión del nuevo proyecto de ONG Derechos Digitales, "Revistas Abiertas", una inédita plataforma en español que brinda todas las herramientas legales y técnicas para que los interesados en publicar una revista académica puedan optar por el libre acceso al conocimiento.

EdiKit

Editorial Manager

Bench>Press is a Web-based manuscript tracking and management service developed by HighWire Press for publishers of scholarly content. Bench>Press provides publishers a high level of flexibility to configure workflows. Designed to integrate easily with HighWire's online publishing services, Bench>Press lowers administrative costs and reduces time from submission to publication

AllenTrack, a Web-based software program, will perform all of the essential editorial office tracking functions. This program is designed for editorial personnel requiring data entry, data retrieval, correspondence, reporting, workflow control, manuscript file management, and database access from office, lab, home, or the road. Access to AllenTrack online is controlled by login and user privileges that the editor can establish for in-house personnel, associate editors, authors, and reviewers.

PEER REVIEW JOURNAL PUBLISHING SERVICES We are an established company in the business of online and print peer review journal publication services. We have both open access or restricted access systems and the publishing cost is substatially minimal compared with other established companies. Our publishing model includes custom design of the front end graphics and architecture with unlimited hosting for your articles and files; alongwith a round the clock technical support system ready to get you started and get going.