Scientific Tunisian Journals’ Enhancement project was initiated in 2016 by the CNUDST as part of its missions, in particular those related to the accessibility and large-scale visibility of Tunisian scientific outputs. Our principal challenge is to make the CNUDST’s editorial expertise available to local stakeholders.
The project target Tunisian publishers of scientific journals, affiliated with scientific and academic institutions. It involves all members of the journal’s editorial team, including members of the editorial board, the review committee, the editorial office etc.
Achievments
Several actions have been carried out to create a framework for meeting, exchanging and sharing expertise on the publication of scientific journals:
- Disseminating results of international expertise in open access publishing through a number of actions organised at national and international level
- Referencing the journals which most closely meet international criteria for scientific publication, indexing and best practice in the Scientific and Technical Information Portal (PIST)
- Providing, via the website and social networks, information about Tunisian journals referenced, indexed and their performance indicators of in international databases.
- Organising exchange meetings between Tunisian and international scientific publishers and dissemination of their results:
- 1st publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on June 30, 2016
- 2nd publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on October 17, 2016 (1st and 2nd meeting’s minutes & presentation « Processus de sélection de TR (3), CSEMay2016 (3) »)
- 3rd publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on April 18, 2017 (3rd meeting’s minutes & presentation « How to promote your academic journal»)
- 4th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on November 7th, 2017 ( 4th meeting’s minutes )
- 5th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on February 7th, 2018 (5th meeting minutes & presentation « Advise for manuscript preparation and ethics in publishing»)
- 6th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on February 28th, 2019 (devoted to journals specialized in human and social sciences) (Report of 6th meeting & presentation Cairn Tunisian Editors 28022019)
- 7th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on February 26th, 2020 (presentation of WOS SELECTION PROCESS FR – FEB 2020)
- Outreaching Tunisian scientific publishers to join the Open Access movement, and advocating its benefits.
- Running training sessions on scientific publication and indexing criteria with experts from international publishers (Clarivate, Elsevier, Springer and Cairn)
- Conducting technical and documentary assistance for Tunisian scientific publishers
At present, each journal is described and referenced on PIST.tn, which will help to improve its visibility and increase the articles citations number.
Joining the project
If you would like to take advantage of the project’s activities, benefit from our technical and documentary assistance, or find out more, please contact the CNUDST at VRST@cnudst.tn.