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Digital Commons

• Dr. Mohamed Moawad

Regional Manager Digital Commons

Agenda:

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Agenda:

• Introduction of Digital commons.
• How can Digital commons support

you during all your publications process?

• Digital commons and indexing.
• Digital commons services.
• Q&A

Your personal reasons for publishing?

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Today, over 600 institutions use Digital Commons to support nearly 2100 journals

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Helping journals to find solutions for:

• Global Visibility
• Simple submission and review management
• Robust metrics
• International community of authors, editors, reviewers
• Multimedia and social media strategies
• Scaling publishing programs

Professionally Design Custom Sites & support all langugues

*72% of scholars and 89% of students begin search with Google or Google Scholar

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Editorial Workflow

• Bepress submission and review

workflow

• Fully Customizable Workflows
• Double and single blind
• Unique editor views
• Multiple roles for editors
• Automated reminders

Easily track and manage reviews All steps in publication process

• rganized in editor

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Dashboards, maps, and download emails can all be embedded or shared with authors & editors

Real-time downloads maps show global readership Editor Dashboards with granular data and reporting features Authors receive monthly emails with download activity and their

• wn dashboard

DC Network

Category Criteria Facilitated by DC Advising with Premier

Basic Criteria Peer-reviewed content ✔ English title, abstracts and keywords ✔ References in Roman script ✔ Regular publication with ISSN ✔ Public publishing ethics statement ✔

Advanced Criteria

Journal Policy Convincing editorial policy ✔ Type of peer review ✔ Diversity in geographical distribution of editors ✔ Diversity in geographical distribution of authors ✔ Content Academic contribution to the field ✔ Clarity of abstracts ✔ Quality of and conformity to the stated aims and scope of the journal Readability of articles ✔ Journal Standing Citedness of journal articles Editor standing Publishing Regularity No delays or interruptions in the publication schedule ✔ Online Availability Full journal content available online ✔ English language journal home page available ✔ Quality of journal home page ✔

Meet technical and basic criteria of selective indexes like Web

• f Science, Scopus, PubMed, and DOAJ

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What are the key factors for success?

Professional Journals Visibility Easy-to-Use Expert Guidance Easy-to-Grow

Professional Design Language Support Hosted Model Complies with Scopus technical requirements

Professional and beautiful journals

Three tiers of service help journals at every level meet their goals

DCPS - Professional

• ISSN registration
• DOIs
• Feeds to indexes and

discovery layers

• Archiving in CLOCKSS or

Portico

• Plagiarism-Checking

(coming soon: integrated plagiarism checking)

DCPS - Premier Everything in Professional PLUS

• Typesetting
• Strategic Advising
• Journal Impact Reports
• Migration services
• Coming Soon: Integrated

Reviewer Finder Additional tiers of publishing services help journals at every level achieve their goals Core Digital Commons Platform

• Visibility on the open web

drives downloads, global presence

• Dashboard provide insights

that editors use to strategically recruit content

• Templates are compliant

with technical requirements

Case Study: Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

• Increased publication from

2- 10 issues/year

• Doubled citation rate
• Downloads/paper grew from

3.44 to 422

For further information:

• Dr. Mohamed Moawad

Regional Manager – Digital Commons Turkey, Middle East, Iran and Central Asia ELSEVIER Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam The Netherlands m.moawad@elsevier.com Tel: +20 10 6669 01 93

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Thank you