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Digital Commons Dr. Mohamed Moawad Regional Manager Digital Commons

Agenda: 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 2

Your personal reasons for publishing?

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

5 Helping journals to find solutions for: Professionally Design Custom Sites & support all • Global Visibility langugues • Simple submission and review management • Robust metrics • International community of authors, editors, reviewers • Multimedia and social media strategies • Scaling publishing programs *72% of scholars and 89% of students begin search with Google or Google Scholar

6 Editorial Workflow • Bepress submission and review workflow o Fully Customizable Workflows o Double and single blind o Unique editor views o Multiple roles for editors o Automated reminders Easily track and manage reviews All steps in publication process organized in editor toolbar

Dashboards, maps, and download emails can all be embedded or shared with authors & editors Editor Dashboards with granular data and reporting features Real-time downloads maps show global readership Authors receive monthly emails with download activity and their own dashboard DC Network

Meet technical and basic criteria of selective indexes like Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and DOAJ Category Criteria Facilitated by DC Advising with Premier Peer-reviewed content ✔ ✔ English title, abstracts and keywords Basic Criteria References in Roman script ✔ Regular publication with ISSN ✔ ✔ Public publishing ethics statement Advanced Criteria Convincing editorial policy ✔ Type of peer review ✔ Journal Policy Diversity in geographical distribution of editors ✔ Diversity in geographical distribution of authors ✔ Academic contribution to the field ✔ Clarity of abstracts ✔ Content Quality of and conformity to the stated aims and scope of the journal Readability of articles ✔ Citedness of journal articles Journal Standing Editor standing Publishing Regularity No delays or interruptions in the publication schedule ✔ Full journal content available online ✔ Online Availability English language journal home page available ✔ Quality of journal home page ✔

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What are the key factors for success? Expert Professional Easy-to-Grow Visibility Easy-to-Use Guidance Journals

Professional and beautiful journals Professional Design Language Support Hosted Model Complies with Scopus technical requirements

Three tiers of service help journals at every level meet their goals Additional tiers of publishing services help journals at every level achieve their goals Core Digital Commons DCPS - Professional DCPS - Premier Platform • • Visibility on the open web ISSN registration Everything in Professional • drives downloads, global DOIs PLUS • • presence Feeds to indexes and Typesetting • • Dashboard provide insights discovery layers Strategic Advising • • that editors use to Archiving in CLOCKSS or Journal Impact Reports • strategically recruit content Portico Migration services • • • Templates are compliant Plagiarism-Checking Coming Soon: Integrated with technical requirements (coming soon: integrated Reviewer Finder plagiarism checking)

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

Thank you 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 14