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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.