About

VIETNAM JOURNALS ONLINE (VJOL) is a service to provide access to Vietnamese published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.

What is VJOL?
VJOL is a database of journals published in Vietnam, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of VJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey.

Journals are selected for inclusion on VJOL using the following criteria:

  1. They are scholarly in content, and contain original research (in addition to other content)
  2. Their content is peer reviewed and quality controlled
  3. They are able to provide all content for inclusion on VJOL (tables of contents, abstracts and PDFs of full text) in electronic format
  4. They are published within Vietnam. Management of publishing strategy, business development and production operation are all run from Vietnam.

VJOL provides information on each participating journal, including aims and scope, contact details and general information. It also provides Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available. All the material on VJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors – each journals will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that falls outside Fair Use. VJOL is not a publisher: VJOL provides a service to the journals by hosting their content online, and actively promoting the website to encourage discovery of these titles and their articles. Individual journals are also using the website to publish their journals and they welcome submissions from registered users.

How journals can join VJOL
If your journal is not included on VJOL and you would like to participate, see the criteria for inclusion (in the section “What is VJOL” above), and contact VJOL directly – vjol@vista.gov.vn or info@vjol.info. If you would like to recommend new journals for inclusion in VJOL, please let us know – we are always looking for more titles.

Services for researchers
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals. The website has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts also provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles. Each journal has its own home page, where researchers can find information about the aims and scope of the journal, and information on how to submit articles to each journal. If the journal is available in print, information about how to obtain copies is also given. Many journals publish in full text online. Others publish their full text at another website - links are provided from each article abstract page. Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite." We encourage you to make use of these tools to enhance your research. Please remember to contact the journals directly if you have any questions for them - VJOL is not the publisher of these journals.

History of VJOL
Vietnam Journals OnLine (VJOL) was initiated in June 2006 and officially launched in September 2007. It is a project supported by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP). It aims to promote the awareness and use of Vietnam-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. VJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada. This software is open source and allows the journal content listed on VJOL to be indexed through Open Archives Initiative search engines dedicated to research, which harvest the metadata for each journal article, making this work readily available to a global audience, and giving the journals greater visibility among the worldwide research community.

Future plans for VJOL
The primary goal of VJOL is to facilitate worldwide access to the full text of Vietnamese Journals - either by hosting the full text online or redirecting users seamlessly to existing websites. We envisage VJOL providing a range of online full text access models for journals, from complete open access to only subscribed access, with hybrid models of restricted access. On the current VJOL system open access to full text is already possible. It is also hoped that the journals on the service will soon begin to allow online submission of articles and that they will conduct the whole editorial process in this online environment.

Disclaimer
VJOL accepts content from journals in good faith, with the understanding that the material to be placed on the website contains nothing that is libellous, illegal, or an infringement of anyone's copyright or other rights. VJOL retains the right to refuse to place any content on the website, and to remove anything that it considers to be either unsuitable or could lead to legal action. The views expressed on this website are those of the article authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of VJOL, or of INASP.

Related Projects
INASP INASP has established similar OnLine journal projects in other regions, particularly Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL), Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL), Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL) and Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL). INASP also developed and managed African Journals Online (AJOL) until 2004 when the management was transferred to NISC in South Africa. INASP is also assisting some African journals to publish their full text online and the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) provides support to researchers around the world through access to information and training and support for the use of information. If you would like further information about these programmes, please contact Sioux Cumming at INASP: scumming@inasp.info.

PKP
The VJOL database was developed using the open-source journal management software called Open Journal Systems (OJS). OJS has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Working collaboratively with this organisation, VJOL has been able to create a high quality website with greatly enhanced functionality. We invite journal editors and others who are interested in utilizing an open source (free to download) journal management, indexing, and publishing system (which is compatible with VJOL) for their own publications to visit the PKP website for more information (http://pkp.ubc.ca/).

Support for VJOL VJOL is grateful to NORAD for their support of this project.

Contact us VJOL Email: tckhvn_vjol@vista.gov.vn; Web: http://www.vjol.info.vn/