About EJOL

Ethiopian Journals Online (EJOL) is hosted by Addis Ababa University. The objective of EJOL is to provide a platform to publish local journals online using Open Journals System (OJS) so as to increase participating journals visibility, and to the research convey through open access (OA). The EJOL platform is freely available to all locally published open access journals in Ethiopia.

• A child of a project on promoting open access publishing to Ethiopian journals.
• A collaborative Project of Addis Ababa University Libraries and Electronic Information for Libraries ( EIFL)
• Addis Ababa University Libraries was one of the winners of EIFL OA advocacy call for proposals(2013)
• EJOL Platform has been implemented using OJS in September 2013.
• EJOL was launched in March 2014 with six Journals.
• EJOL upgraded to the latest version OJS 3 in April 2017

Why EJOL

• Provides a platform to publish local journals online using Open Journals System (OJS).
• Increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship
• The objective is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey through OA
• One stop shopping for Ethiopian Journals
• Authors promoting their work in the journal

EJOL Offers

• Free Host
• Help setting up your journal Online
• Training for editorial staff
• Backup
• Free Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• Technical support along the way
• Support in relation to Open Access, copyright, digitisation, Visibility etc.
• Networking

Journal Inclusion in EJOL

–scholarly content with original research

–Open Access

–peer reviewed and quality controlled

–published within Ethiopia

     Journals who wish to join EJOL Complete the Form attached Download Application Form and return. email ejol at aau.edu.et

Contact

Ethiopian Journals Online (EJOL)
Addis Ababa University, Main Campus
John F. Kennedy Library
P.O.Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia