Promoting scholarly journals internationally: Russian editors and publishers’ passion

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I was invited by Dr. Olga V. Kirillova, president of Russia’s Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP), to attend the association’s conference in Moscow, held April 23–26. This annual conference is known as the largest and most authoritative event for developing the publishing industry in Russia’s science and education sector through world-class scientific journals. The conference focuses on the current status and prospects for development of scientific journals in Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States, and Eastern Europe. It aims to develop tactics for publishing-related activities in various scientific fields, and to support, develop and promote the association’s member journals and publications, strategizing to realize this goal. About 400 participants attended: experts directly involved in the publication of scientific journals, representatives of universities and the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Science Center, and others from across the publishing industry (Fig. 1). On April 22, the day prior to the conference, a Scopus Only Day comprised an international workshop presented by the Scopus team of Elsevier, with about 100 people attending. In the morning, Scopus introduced and discussed the latest trends with sessions on “How to get your title accepted into Scopus” and the “Russian board: an inside look into their ways of working.” In the afternoon, a working group session examined submitting journals to Scopus for pre-evaluation and potential indexing in their database, highlighting a recent Scopus resource (https://www.readyforscopus.com/). © 2019 Korean Council of Science Editors

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