Session 092

Libraries as drivers for Open Access

Science & Technology Libraries with Serials and
other Continuing Resources (SI)

Open access monitoring and business model in

Latin America and Middle East: a comparative
study based on DOAJ data and criteria

Ivonne Lujano Mahmoud Khalifa

DOAJ ambassador for Latin America
Faculty at Autonomous University of
the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico
ivonne.lujano@gmail.com
DOAJ ambassador for MENA
PhD candidate, Berlin School of Library
and Information, Humboldt University,
Germany
mahmoud.khalifa@cybrarians.org
• DOAJ ambassador for Latin
America
• Faculty member at Autonomous
University of the State of Mexico,
Toluca, Mexico.
• Master’s in Social Sciences with an
emphasis in Education at FLACSO-
Argentina
• Specialized in scientific Open
Access publishing processes and
experience in the evaluation of
scholarly publishing practices.
Study overview
Comparative study between open access journals in
LATINAM and MENA

Peer-review Plagiarism
Business models
policies screening policies
 11.977
OA
journals

8,812
Article
August 2018 level

128
3,272,888 Countries
Articles
• In terms of development of OA
movement in developing countries,
DOAJ ran an Ambassador program.
• 12 ambassadors from around the
world employed in 2016.
• Areas covered: Latin America, Middle
East and North Africa, Middle and
South Africa, India, and China.
• New ambassadors from Indonesia and
South Korea joined in 2017 and 2018.
 OA journals in LATINAM

• 2196 journals were indexed in DOAJ.

• LATINAM journals acts 19% of DOAJ total amount.
• Brazil publishes 56% of LATINAM journals (1249).
• Brazil is the third country has indexed journals in
DOAJ.
• Columbia: 295, Argentina: 179, and Mexico: 115.
LATINAM countries

8%
5%
3%0% 0% 0% 2% 0%1% 1% 0%
2% 0% Argentina
0% 0% Bahamas
2% Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
13% Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Jamaica
Mexico
4% Nicaragua
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Uruguay
Venezuela
57%
 OA journals in MENA

• 540 journals were indexed in DOAJ.

• MENA journals acts 4.8% of DOAJ total amount.
• Iran publishes 71% of MENA journals (386).
• Egypt: 46, Iraq: 23, and Saudi Arabia: 17.
• Until March 2018, Egypt was the fourth top county in
DOAJ with about 600 journals, but the Egyptian
publisher Hindawy moved its headquarter to London.
 MENA Countries

3% 9% Algeria Egypt
1%
0% 3% 2% 1%
0% 1%
0% Iran Iraq
0% 2%
1%
0%
Jordan Kuwait
1%
4%
Lebanon Libya

Morocco Oman

Palestine Qatar

Saudi Arabia South Sudan

71% Tunisia United Arab Emirates

Yemen
Business model
LATINAM MENA
• 5.1% of journals apply APCs. • 18.1% of journals apply
APCs.

• 94.3% of journals do not • 81.4% of journals do not

apply APCs. apply APCs.

• Average of charges: 350 • Average of charges: 172.3

USD USD
 Peer-review
LATINAM MENA

Editorial peer-review • 0.7% • 0.8%

Peer-review • 22.6% • 32.2%
Blind peer-review • 17% • 18.5%
Double blind peer-review • 58.6% • 48.1%

Open peer-review • 0.1% • 0%

Plagiarism screening policy
LATINAM MENA
• 22.7% of journals have • 77.3% of journals have
plagiarism screening policy. plagiarism screening policy.

• 48.3% of journals do not • 51.7% of journals do not

have plagiarism screening have plagiarism screening
policy. policy.