Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL)

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Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL)

• A Brief Introduction
• By
• Krishna Mani Bhandary
• Librarian
• Tribhuvan University Central Library
• Kirtipur, Kathmandu
• Nepal
• Website www.tucl.org.npE-mail
  tucl_at_healthnet.org.np

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Map of Nepal
Landlocked country between China and India
Area 147,181 sq km Population 28
million Literacy 55
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Facts about Nepal

• Developmental challenges
• 2.25 pop growth rate
• Political challenges for the most of the past
  decade
• 3 geographical regions Himalayan, Hill and Terai
• 40 of the total land lies in the Himalayan
  region

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INASP/PERii

• Affordable access to international scholarly
  literature
• Successful writing, publishing and communication
  of research from developing and emerging
  countries
• Effective use, evaluation and management of ICTs
  to support research
• Development of modern, digital libraries

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PERii in Nepal

• Began in 2003
• NepJOL created in order to strengthen and
  communicate national research
• Part of a larger group of Asian JOLs
• BanglaJOL
• PhilJOL
• SLJOL
• VJOL

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Tribhuvan University Central Library

• Centre of PERii collaboration team from 2003
• Established 1959
• Members 11,000
• National Agency of ISBN 2000
• UN Depository Library 1964
• Total staff 75
• Professional Staff 15

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History of NepJOL

• Article Database started in 2000 (Articles from
  Science Journals published from Nepal)
• Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) was initiated in
  June 2006
• Officially launched in September 2007
• Supported by the International Network for the
  Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
• 4 workshops held to train editors
• Currently 51 journals across wide spread of
  subjects
• 195 Tables of Contents
• 2866 articles with 2214 of the articles are
  available in full text (PDF)

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NepJOL (www.nepjol.info)

• Objectives
• To promote the awareness and use of
  Nepal-published journals in all disciplines by
  providing access to TOCs, abstracts and full text
  online
• To strengthen local publications
• To provide a range of online full text access
  models for journals, from complete open access to
  subscription access, with hybrid models of
  restricted access
• Key Challenges for Nepal
• Power
• Political instability
• Irregular publication of journals
• Lack of computer literacy

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Inclusion of Journals on NepJOL

• Journals identified, or they approach NepJOL
• Criteria for selection
• scholarly content with original research
• peer reviewed and quality controlled
• published within Nepal
• Sign an agreement of responsibilities
• INASP registers information about the journal
• Principle contact
• Editorial Board
• Instructions to authors
• Content then loaded by either
• INASP
• TUCL
• Journal editors

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Online Submission on NepJOL

• Journals can allow authors to submit their
  articles online
• Authors register on the site
• Manuscript is submitted using a simple 5-stage
  process
• See instructions at www.inasp.info/jol-users-works
  hop
• Editors can use online peer-review process
• Saves money (postage etc.)
• Keeps a history of all actions for each
  manuscript
• Easier management of remote reviewers

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Source of visitors to NepJOL
554,500 visits from 219 countries (Nov 2007-July
2010)
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Visits to NepJOL
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Proportion of visits to NepJOL by continent Nov
2007-July 2010
Americas
Europe
Africa
15.16 Oceania
Asia
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Use (Article View) Statistics
1.2 million articles have been viewed Nov
2007-July 2010. Himalayan Journal of Science has
the highest (177,000) partly because it has the
largest number of articles on NepJOL.
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Average views per article
This measure is related to the number of articles
each journal has on the site. Journal of Nepal
Business Studies has the highest average views
per article with 2200.
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Journals on NepJOL
51 journals have now joined NepJOL
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Information about NepJOL

• INASP produces a newsletter every six months
• http//www.inasp.info/nepjol

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Future plans for NepJOL

• Increase the number of journals included
• Ensure that content is kept up to date
• Encourage journals to allow authors to submit
  manuscripts online
• Encourage journal editors to use the full online
  peer-review system
• Encourage journal editors to load their own
  content
• Move the management of the system to Nepal

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Conclusion

• A database of 2200 full text articles published
  in Nepal
• 51 journals included
• Visibility of Nepal research has increased
• Journal editors starting to use online management
  system

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Contact Details
In Nepal Mr. Krishna Mani Bhandary Librarian Tribhuvan University Central Library Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal E-mail tucl_at_healthnet.org.np At INASP, UK Mrs. Sioux Cumming INASP 60 St Aldates Oxford OX1 1ST, UK E-mail scumming_at_inasp.info
Support for NepJOL NepJOL is grateful to NORAD
and PERii for their support of this project.
Tribhuvan University Central Library has been
provided valuable support and management of the
service. Supporting Staff Mr. Lal Bahadur
Chouhan, TUCL lbchouhan_at_yahoo.com Mr. Geba Nath
Nyaupane, TUCL narayannyaupane_at_yahoo.com
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Thank you