Dear Professionals, Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012 National Library of Serbia, May 18, 2012 – May 19, 2012 Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the National Library of Serbia, the Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference will be held on Friday&Saturday, May 18-19, 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia. This year conference will focus on local and regional journals striving for international excellence and recognition. We welcome contributions and participation from journal editors and publishers, science managers and administrators, research evaluators, librarians, information systems developers, and all others interested in issues listed in programme. Especially welcome are papers addressing evaluation and quality issues of journal publishing in developing, transition, and emerging market countries. TopicsThe presentations should be devoted, but not necessarily restricted to one of the following broad topics: (1) Strategic Issues of Journals Publishing in Developing and Transition Countries· Role of local/national journals in the R&D strategies of developing and transition countries (DTC); Journals sponsors and publishers, contributors and consumers; Orientation dilemma: Contributing to national performance or to local professionalism; Economic models: Can Open Access be sustainable, is author-paid system viable; Problems of low budgeting: Is there room for marketing and advertising; DTC journals development process: Is internationalization a must; International co-authorship and citation exchange; Standards and practices: Publishing languages, paper formats, citation styles. (2) Ethical Dimension of Publishing· Publication misconduct in DTC journals; Roots of plagiarism in DTC publishing: Cultural patterns, language barriers, career pressure, law risk of sanctions; Effectiveness of self-regulatory bodies in DT countries: Committees vs. offices of research integrity; Should criteria for cut-and-paste plagiarism in DTC journals be more liberal; Fighting translation/bilingual plagiarism; Whistle blowing in DTC research communities; Practices and technologies used to prevent misconduct; Misconduct as a cross-border spillover phenomenon. (3) Local and Regional Journals Evaluation· Visibility, full-text availability and impact; Impact Factor of "non-indexed" journals; Other-than-impact journals indicators; Role of national and regional citation databases; Open citation indexes: Potentials of Google Scholar; The role of global citation indexes (WoS and Scopus) in DTC journals development; International aggregators admission criteria; Measuring quality of social sciences and humanities journals: The purpose of ERIC. (4) Technologies to Support High-Quality Journal Publishing· Online journal management systems; PKP Open journal systems; To migrate or not to migrate to digital-only; Innovative services supporting editorial process; Open review; Collaborative peer review; International integration: The real use from CrossRef system; Thesaurus-based automatic keyphrase indexing; Technologies of references standardization; Proofreading and editing services; Destigmatization of publishing in small journals: Attracting high-quality papers and authors; Providing qualified reviewers for papers published in small languages. (5) Open Access in Developing and Transition Countries· Are DT countries OA beneficiaries; The role of OA journals in raising national performance; Visibility and usability of OA individual journal archives/websites; OA journals databases vs. OA institutional repositories; Effectivity of various types of OA: Gold vs. green, preprints vs. post-prints; Policies mandating OA to publicly funded research; Predatory OA journals. Interested contributors are reqested to submit their original research paper on the theme by 25th February, 2012. For detail about submission guideline, date etc. please visit: http://boac.ceon.rs/index.php/BOAC/12 Bhaskar Mukherjee Programme Committee, Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012Assistant Professor Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi With Regards Mukesh Kumar Jha -------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.