Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This year, I attended the biennial European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Conference for the fourth time.The previous conferences were held in Tallinn in Estonia, Split in Croatia, and Strasbourg in France.This year's conference was held in Bucharest, Romania.As in previous years, approximately 130 people registered for the conference.Most attendees came from various countries throughout Europe, while some editors attended from Asia and North America.Some representatives of large publishing companies attended, but most attendees were editors of academic journals or manuscript editors.As this was the fourth time in a row that I attended the conference, I readily adapted to its friendly and welcoming atmosphere.On June 8th, a workshop with Crossref 's Rachael Lammey was held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with the theme of "XML for journal editors." First, coding in Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) XML was demonstrated on the screen.Then, we went over the roles of CSS and XSL.A JATS XML file was validated to confirm that it met the rules and was edited if it had any errors.Rachael Lammey discussed Crossref 's XML and various Crossref services.We had a total of 7 participants (Fig. 1); 1 participant did not attend the afternoon portion, so only 6 participants were captured in the photograph, along with the 2 lecturers.One participant was an IT specialist from Romania who shared with us the fact that JATS XML was used in Romania as well.The other participants were already using JATS XML for journal publishing but wanted to learn more, or were not using JATS XML yet but wished to implement it.All participants hoped to adopt JATS XML for journal publications, with the goal of implementing it on their websites and easily converting it to various other forms of XML.European journals used JATS XML less than expected.Of the 34 countries in Europe, 13 did not have a single journal indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), 8 had a single journal indexed in PMC, and 9 had 10 or fewer published journals indexed in PMC.However, the countries with open-access journal publishers, such as England, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Germany, published 675 PMC-indexed journals.Compared to the 116 PMC-indexed journals in South Korea, it can be said that most European countries have a low number of journals using JATS XML.Although PMC
Source: Science Editing
DOI: 10.6087/kcse.142
Author: Sun Huh
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2888395385