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Academic journal publishing is more complex than popular journal publishing. There are legal, academic, ethical, and technical rules and standards that academic journals must comply with. One of the technical standards is the provision of rich metadata. To open scientific publications to the international scientific world, it is vital to assign DOI, to use unique identifiers such as ORCID for authors, ROR ID for institutions, and to provide rich metadata. It is crucial to assign DOIs to these publications. Unfortunately, very few academic books in Turkey are assigned DOIs. DOI usage in refereed journals is better. However, we are faced with other problems here. The information in the PDF files of the articles and the article metadata used in DOI retrieval should be the same. However, while the PDF file contains current data, article metadata may contain information older than the first version of the study. DOI assignment is a technical process. Firstly, the minimum information about the article should be sent to the Crossref system, and the DOI should be assigned. Secondly, the article metadata should be fully registered in the Crossref system. Many publishers do not perform this second process. Although DOI is assigned to the articles by paying a fee, the article metadata is not sent to Crossref and opened to the international community. Another problem is that article metadata is sent to Crossref only in the language of the article. However, rich metadata should be sent to Crossref in Turkish and English. It is necessary to assign DOIs to Turkey-centred scientific books and even to assign DOIs to all academic books backwards. In addition, making the rich metadata of publications available through Crossref in Turkish and English languages thanks to the DOI obtained by paying a fee, will increase the visibility of Turkey-based scientific production in a short time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Scientific researches and studies, the aim and the goal of the study, how it has been prepared, its limitations, research methods, data collection techniques, sources of information and the results obtained should be announced to science world clearly and in accordance with the rules after the reliability is tested. The subject of medical and health sciences are the leading disciplines that require to share researches, new inventions, knowledge and experience rapidly and accurately. The professionals of medical and health sciences must continue to follow the information resources of their field, to search, and at least to follow the innovatios after their formal education. Various meetings have been held in our country about periodicals that have an important role in the dissemination process of knowledge and particularly about how to increase their scientific qualities. Among these, Health Sciences Publishing Symposiums for the that have been organized by ULAKBİM draw attention with their continuity and effiency The aim of this article is to examine the subjects dealed in studies to increase the qualities of academic and scientific journals of medical and health sciences published in Turkey and especially in symposiums of periodicals for the health sciences in terms of their contributions to academic publishing. Topics mostly as journals of medical and health sciences, scientific and medical research and publication ethics, consultancy systems, editorship, responsibilities of editors, authorship and article writing, citation index, discussed in symposiums that started in 1991 and held information annually after in 2003 involve important information not only for reseachers, authors but also for editors, consultants and publishers. Besides the symposiums, it has been expected that the study of DergiPark which is the new project of ULAKBİM will contribute to our scientific periodicals. As a result, advice for the future symposiums and the points that should be completed in communique books are mentioned in the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this research is to determine different concept usages in the field of measurement and evaluation statistically. In accordance with this purpose, of the purposeful sampling methods, criteria sampling is used and 79 articles in 11 journals, which are indexed by ULAKBİLİM in the field of education and whose full texts can be accessible online between the years 2004-2010, composed the sample of the study. As a result of research, it was figured out that Traditional and Alternative Measurement and Evaluation concepts were proportionately stated at most. When the concepts that are used to determine the methods and instruments of measurement and evaluation are analyzed in terms of diversity, usages of Portfolio, Performance Evaluation, Self-Evaluation and Group Evaluation, Peer Evaluation, Rubric, Interview, Checklist and Diagnostic Tree concepts are mostly encountered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frequently occurring problems of Turkish social science learned journals, which were especially the concern of the editorial boards were extensively taken into consideration. Thereafter, suggestions for their solutions with special reference to the practice of Journal "Information World"-were forwarded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Turkish academia places a premium on citation indexes. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of related academic articles and popular scientific papers. Considering the importance of citation indexes in Turkey, recent developments on this issue should not be overlooked. One of the most important developments in this area has been the expansion decision of the company, which is the commercial owner of the citation indexes. With the expansion decision, a large number of journals from many countries including Turkey were added in the citation indexes. It is impossible to say that this decision of expansion could only be related to the increasing number of journals all around the world. Some new formations (such as Google Scholar, Scopus, etc.) that have taken place in the market as the competitors of citation indexes, and the owner company's tendency to accommodate the journals of the countries to which it sells databases in order to increase its market share, should have influenced this decision. In such an environment, Turkey needs to evaluate its own journals and try to acquire a solid place within the citation indexes. This study investigates the Turkey addressed journals included in the citation indexes in terms of their places in the production of scientific publications in Turkey, and their impact factors in the related areas. The study also aims to reveal the extent to which Turkey addressed journals in citation indexes can be accepted as domestic. The results of this study show that in Turkey addressed journals, four-fifth of papers have at least one author from Turkey, and one-third of all publications are in Turkish. In addition, it was found out that the scientists in the editorial boards of Turkey addressed journals in citation indexes are mainly from Turkey. It was also found out that, Turkey addressed journals have relatively low impact factors in the related fields, the reason of which could be attributed to the regional characteristics of Turkey addressed journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]