Interpretation of the ASSAF Code of Best Practice

Interpretation of the ASSAF Code of Best Practice

Elizabeth Henning

Editor: South African Journal of Childhood Education Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg

NSEF Annual Meeting

10 – 11 Nov 2021

The Principles: Words (more than?)

Components of the Code of Practice

1.Policy

3.

Governance

2. Process

Resources

/Recommended Reading:

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

: Core Practices

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE):

Guidelines

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

: Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

Council of Science Editors

: White Paper on Publication Ethics

Department of Higher Education

Policy (DHET): Research Outputs Policy

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ):

Publishing Best Practice and Basic Standards for Inclusion

SciELO

: Criteria, policy and procedures for admission and permanence of scientific journals in the South African Collection of SciELO: SciELO SA Criteria

The Review Process

Reviewer pool Turnaround time Ethics

Time

ASSAF Code of Conduct:

Editorial and Production Governance

A Predicament for Journals: Publisher or Home-based system?

E Henning experience of different models with two journals (1997 – 2021)

Home-industry with private server University server

Print with open access Open access publisher

Conventional international publisher + fee for open access

Frontiers?

Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

ASSAf Research Repository http://research.assaf.org.za/

B. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Events I. Other

2021

Annual National Scholarly Editors’

Forum (NSEF) Meeting

Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11911/221

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