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The OVCRD Report Assistance for UP Diliman Journals: Upgrading and Wider Dissemination The OVCRD, through the RDUO, continues to operate the UP Diliman Journals Online (UPDJOL) , a project started in 2008 that aims to gather all UP Diliman journals in a single repository and widen their dissemination and visibility online. Currently, there are 23 UP Diliman journals in the UPDJOL and two guest journals. In 2011, UPDJOL’s content was fully updated and to ensure that updating is sustained, the OVCRD issued a memorandum (Memorandum No. BMP 11-006 issued on 13 September 2011) regarding procedures for content uploading to the UPDJOL. Aside from the UPDJOL, other forms of assistance concerning internationalization and wider visibility have been extended by the OVCRD to the campus journals. Among these are seminar-workshops aimed at helping the journals obtain international accreditation. A seminar-workshop on the Listing/ Internationalization of UP Diliman journals was held on 19 November 2012, which was coorganized with the UP Diliman Main Library and the iGroup. The workshop, with an audience of editors and representatives from 22 UP Diliman journals, had Dr. Khee Hiang Lim, Principal Consultant of Thomson Reuters’ Intellectual Property & Science Southeast Asia, as resource person. The whole day seminarworkshop focused on the submission and evaluation process followed in selecting the journals that are listed in the Web of Science, the academic citation index of Thomson-Reuters, formerly known .  Journals that apply for inclusion in the Web of Science are evaluated visa-vis four broad areas: publishing standards, editorial content, international diversity of authorship, and citation analysis. On 24 April 2013, the OVCRD in co-sponsorship with Elsevier conducted a Workshop for Journal Editors, which oriented participants with the content coverage and journal selection process of Scopus, the abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature that Elsevier manages. Dr. Wim Meester, Senior Product Manager of Scopus, was the workshop resource person. Dr. Meester said that there are five minimum criteria that journals should satisfy before they can be endorsed to the Content Selection Advisory Board. These criteria are: 1) the journal should be peer reviewed; 2) its articles should have an abstract in English; 3) it should be published regularly; 4) all its references should be in Roman Script; and 5) it must have a publication ethics statement. Journals that meet these five criteria then undergo an evaluation process that involves an intensive examination of their editorial policy, content quality, citedness of articles and editorial board members, regularity of publication, and online availability. Present during the workshop were editors/representatives of 12 UP Diliman journals and some representatives from other UP constituent units.