Scopus Only Day Workshop

The Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC or ZNAK) and the National and University Library in Zagreb, in collaboration with Elsevier, organized Scopus Only Day Workshop, which took place on 24 October 2023 from 13 to 17 h CEST at the Croatrium (map of the venue), National and University Library in Zagreb, Ul. Hrvatske bratske zajednice 4
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At the workshop, an overview of Croatian journals and their indexing in Scopus has been given, along with useful tips for the inclusion in the database and tools that can help journal editors. Editors also had the opportunity to consult individually with the Content Selection and Advisory Board experts about the inclusion of their journal in Scopus.

PROGRAMME

Session 1 (13:00 – 14:10)

• Welcoming words (Prof. Ivanka Stričević, National and University Library in Zagreb, and Dr. Wim Meester, Scopus Content Director)
• Overview of Croatian journals visibility and acceptance tendency. Scopus criteria and roadmap (Dr. Wim Meester, Scopus Content Director)
• Croatian case: current state, goals and trends in journal development and visibility (Iva Melinščak Zlodi, Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication)
• Croatian journal success story (Katarina Botić, Annales Instituti Archaeologici / Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju)

Coffee Break (14:10 – 14:25)

Session 2 (14:25 – 16:00)

• Tips and suggestions for journal editors from the Content Selection and Advisory Board (Dr. David Rew and Ms. Karen Holland, Subject chairs in Medicine and Nursing)
• Tools that can help and what’s next after submission to Scopus (Ms. Galina Iakshonok, Elsevier Research Intelligence Consultant)
• Q&A

Session 3 (16:00 – 17:00)

• Individual journal consultations with Content Selection and Advisory Board experts // not accepting bookings any more