Hi all

A French colleague inquired whether JoPP was archived in any databases including the "easier to get into" Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This seems like a pretty good fit for us. I checked it out and it does not seem too bad so I'm willing to give it a go.

However there are a few questions I'm not sure about. I've copied them all below but the most important issues IMO are PDFs and copyright.

PDF

We used to have a PDF generator for articles. This broke and was meant to be repaired...? This absence limits our ability to be picked up by search engines and archived in other databases.

@Peter (and maxigas): is there a solution in sight?

PDFs would feature this text:

"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons

Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License"

Now the only indication we have about copyright is "All the contents of this journal are in the public domain" (on the front page) which is a bit vague.

So should we change this text to the CC licence? Any reason not to?

Finally there are some questions at the end about author ownership - I assume we give all rights to authors?

@Our legal experts (Angela, Steve...): any thoughts on this?

cheers

Mathieu

SEE QUESTION AND POSSIBLE ANSWERS BELOW

Publisher => Self-published?

Platform, Host or Aggregator => Peter?

What digital archiving policy does the journal use? => No policy in place?

Does the journal allow software/spiders to automatically crawl the journal content (also known as text mining)? => No?

Which article identifiers does the journal use? =>

None?

DOI

Handles

ARK

Please indicate which formats of full text are available *

PDF

HTML

ePUB

XML

Other

What is the URL for the journal's Open Access statement?

Does the journal embed or display simple machine-readable CC licensing information in its articles?

Yes

52) Does the journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions? *

Yes

Other

54) Will the journal allow the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions?