Milica Ševkušić
Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade
biblioteka@itn.sanu.ac.rs

doi: 10.19090/cit.2017.30.13-26
No. 30 (May 2017), p. 13-26

Defining the Editorial Policies of Open Access Journals in Serbia
and the Role of Librarians in This Process

Summary

The paper discusses the process of devising an editorial policy template intended for Serbian Open Access journals and the role of librarians in this process. The template was developed with the idea to provide assistance to journals involved in the reapplication process in the Directory of Open Access Journals, as well as to those intending to apply for indexing in the Web of Science and Scopus. This ready-made solution has a modular structure and it covers the publication ethics, editorial and publishing procedures, and rights. Librarians also provided assistance in the process of aligning journal policies with the offered template. An early result of these actions is the positive outcome of the reapplication process for all journals that defined their editorial policies relying on the proposed template. The paper also identifies the future challenges associated with the implementation of the newly defined policies.

Keywords:

Open Access journals, Serbia, editorial policy, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Committee on Publication Ethics, peer review, copyright, Creative Commons licenses, article processing charge

Submitted: 1th April 2017
Correction to the manuscript: 17th April 2017
Accepted for publication: 23rd April 2017

Defining the Editorial Policies of Open Access Journals in Serbia and the Role of Librarians in This Process by Milica Ševkušić is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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