Asoka Siriwardana

&

Tharanga Ranasinghe

Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL): providing global

visibility to local research output

CALIBER 2013

Contents• Introduction to SLJOL

• History of SLJOL

• Coverage of SLJOL

• Services of SLJOL

• Usage of SLJOL

• Further Suggestions

About SLJOL• A service to provide access to Sri Lankan

published research

• Increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship

• Database of journals published in Sri Lanka,

covering the full range of academic disciplines

• The objective is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey

About SLJOL• Member service of Journals Online (JOL) Project

of INASP

• Other JOL services:– Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL)– Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL)– Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL)

• Uses Open Journals System (OJS) – an Open Source Software developed by Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

History of SLJOLInitiated in August 2008 with six (06)

journals

Project is supported INASP

Providing access to TOCsAbstractsFull text

Coverage of SLJOL• 46 journals listed (as of 30th January, 2013)

• 44% of journals published by professional associations

• 42% of journals published by universities and affiliated institutions

• 8% of journals published by research institutions

Subject Coverage of SLJOL

– Agriculture (7 journals)– Architecture, Building and Planning (1 journal)– Biological Sciences (5 journals)– Education (2 journals)– Environmental Sciences (1 journal)– Law (1 journal)–Mathematics and Computer Sciences (3

journals)–Medicine and Dentistry (16 journals)–Multidisciplinary (1 journal)– Physical Sciences (6 journals)– Social Studies (6 journals)– Subjects allied to Medicine (3 journals)

Statistics364 ToCs

3611 articles

97% of full text articles

Services of SLJOL• Alphabetically listed journals

• Sophisticated searching tool

• Email alerts service

• Own home page for each journal

• Online full text for many journals

www.sljol.info

New Journals

New Issues

Browse Journals

Link to Journals

CMJ

Journal

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Link to Current Issue

Journal Homepage Current Issue

Link to PDF

Link to Journal Archive

CMJFull-text Archives

Usage of SLJOL

- December 2011

Importance of SLJOLProvides a platform to publish local journals

online

Hosting full-text of journals

Facilitate worldwide access to the full text of Sri Lankan Journals

Further Suggestions• Covering all local journals

• Maintain high quality service

• Serving as an Indexing Service

• Facilitating entire Editorial Process

• Introducing a range of access models