[JoPP-Public] DOAJ: PDF and CC?

[Mathieu ONeil]

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.

https://doaj.org/application/new


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?


COPYRIGHT

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
No

Copyright and Permissions
Copyright & Licensing help

52) Does the journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions? *
Yes
No
Other

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


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