Scientific Tunisian journals' enhancement - Services

As part of its mission, CNUDST has focused on bringing out scientific Tunisian publications to enhance more visibility, accessibility and usage and so to go into reflections and events with national and international scientific publishers.

In 2016, CNUDST has started its project named ‘Scientific Tunisian journals’ Enhancement’. This project targets to highlight visibility of scientific Tunisian journals on the national and international scale, and thus upgrading them to meet the international standards of online scientific publications and of indexing in bibliographic and bibliometric databases among which Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of the editor clarivate ( ex Thomson Reuters) and Scopus of the editor Elsevier.

International standards of indexing journals

In this framework, a study has been carried out on scientific journals published by institutions of higher education and by scholarly organizations taking into account the essential standards of indexing ( language, medium of publication, periodicity and frequency of publication). Then a selection of titltes should best respond to the standards that are suggested by the editors Clarivate Analytics & Elsevier:

URL & available online full text
Respecting the time limit of online publication set by the publisher
Publication timeliness
Bibliographical informations must be in english : title, keywords, abstract,
E-ISSN / ISSN ;
Full text language preferably in english
Type of text format
Bibliographic references
Editorial board

Undertaken actions to upgrade tunisian journals

For more efficiency and not to be confined on theoretical aspect, a set of actions has been realized through this study :

Technical and documentary assistance for scientific Tunisian publishers
Organizing training about standards of scientific publication and of indexing with experts of international editors (Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier & Springer)
Referencing journals which best meet the international standards into products developed by the CNUDST and accessible on line via the CNUDST
CNUDST Web-casting of selected scientific journals
Organizing meetings with scientific Tunisian publishers and international ones
- 1^st publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on June 30, 2016
- 2^nd publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on October 17, 2016 (1^stand 2^nd meeting’s minutes & presentation « Processus de sélection de TR (3), CSEMay2016 (3) »)
- 3^{rd publishers’}meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on April 18, 2017 (3^rdmeeting’s minutes & presentation « How to promote your academic journal»)
- 4^th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on November 7^th, 2017 ( 4^th meeting’s minutes )
- 5^th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on February 7^th, 2018 (5^th meeting minutes & presentation « Advise for manuscript preparation and ethics in publishing»)
- 6^th publishers’ meeting of scientific Tunisian journals held on February 28^th, 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 26^th, 2020 (presentation of WOS SELECTION PROCESS FR – FEB 2020)
Tunisian Publishers awareness to adhere to free access and Open Access movement

List of Journals’ names proposed for indexation

CNUDST has also taken initiative to suggest its 1^st listing of 14 scientific Tunisian journals so as to index them in the ESCI & SCOPUS databases :

As a result to these meetings, some of tunisian scientific journals took advantages of advices, standards of online publishing and indexing and they undertook to go through electronic version or to improve its :

Scientific Tunisian journals’ enhancement

International standards of indexing journals

Undertaken actions to upgrade tunisian journals

List of Journals’ names proposed for indexation