Membership in Associations and Professional Societies

The publisher of this journal - Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University - is a member of:

Association of European University Presses (AEUP) is an organisation for University Presses across Europe to help them build stronger relationships between them, to co-operate and share knowledge in order to reach common goals and to jointly address important issues in a currently turbulent time in publishing.
AEUP aims to enhance the visibility of member presses; facilitate communication between them link the channels of distribution of books share knowledge about all aspects of scholarly publishing; strengthen our common mission to support scholarly publishing; spread the joint catalog metadata as wide as possible (e.g. via aggregators of book traders, etc.)

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers was formed in 1972 with 24 society members. Today ALPSP has more than 315 member organisations in 39 countries and is the largest international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers. We aim to serve, represent and strengthen the community of scholarly publishers, and those who work with them. ALPSP provides information, education, representation, cooperative initiatives and guidelines for good practice.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to define best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing and to assist editors, publishers, etc. to achieve this. COPE was established in 1997 by a small group of medical journal editors in the UK but now has over 9000 members worldwide from all academic fields. All COPE members are expected to follow the Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. Several major publishers (including Elsevier, Wiley–Blackwell, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Palgrave Macmillan and Wolters Kluwer) have signed up some, if not all, of their journals as COPE members.
COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. It also provides a forum for its members to discuss individual cases.

CrossRef is an association of scholarly publishers that develops shared infrastructure to support more effective scholarly communications. CrossRef's general purpose is to promote the development and cooperative use of new and innovative technologies to speed and facilitate scholarly research. CrossRef's specific mandate is to be the citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form. CrossRef is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (CrossRef DOI), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. The end result is an efficient, scalable linking system through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the cited article.
CrossRef citation-linking network today covers over 67 million journal articles and other content items (books chapters, data, theses, technical reports) from thousands of scholarly and professional publishers around the globe.

International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) is the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers. It has over 120 members in 21 countries who each year collectively publish nearly 66% of all journal articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works. STM members include learned societies, university presses, private companies, new starts and established players.
STM participates in the development of information identification protocols and electronic copyright management systems. STM organises seminars,training courses, and conferences. Its General Assembly is held annually, one day preceding the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is an industry association which aims to promote open access publishing (also known as Gold Open Access) and to establish best practices in the field. It brings together the major open access publishers on the one hand and independent — often society- or university-based — publishers on the other, along with some hybrid open access publishers. While having started out with a focus on open access journals exclusively, it is now expanding its activities to include matters pertaining to the open access publishing of books as well.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC focuses on taking action in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, and libraries – to build on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship.


Status in Ukraine

Electrical Engineering and Power Engineering has been approved for the List of Print Professional Scientific Journals of Ukraine recomended for publication of dissertations results:

  • in technical sciences (approved date: 21.12.15)

Academic Databases

Index Copernicus Journals Master List is a scientific journal database that contain currently over 13,000 journals from all over the world. This database covers all fields of science. Registered journals undergo rigorous, multidimensional evaluation, proving high quality. Appreciation to the IC Journals Master List expressed the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland by placing the database of scientific journals IC Journals Master List to the list of databases for indexing in which, periodicals receive additional points in the evaluation conducted by the Ministry.
Indexed Issues: since 2006.
ICV 2018: 85.17

Российский индекс научного цитирования (RINC) is a research and information system accumulating over 6 million publications of Russian authors as well as information on quoting these publications from more than 3000 Russian and CIS journals. It is designed not only for operational support of research activities by up-to-date reference and bibliographic information but also it is a powerful tool allowing to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of research organizations, scholars, the level of academic journals, etc.
Indexed Issues: since 2006.

Catalogs and Search Engines

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. This directory has index of about 2 million articles from more than 10,000 journals of open-access publishers from 134 countries.
The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer review or editorial quality control and use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers. This product provides the citation indexing features. While Google does not publish the size of Google Scholar's index, third-party researchers estimated it to contain roughly 160 million documents.

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) is a project that supports the European Commission Open Access policy by providing an infrastructure for researchers to comply with the European Union Open Access mandate. This repository provides content across academic disciplines with over 11,5 million scientific publications, found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested regularly from more than 610 repositories, from 52 countries.

PKP Index is the project of Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The PKP Index is a database of articles, books, and conference proceedings using PKP's free, open source Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press, and Open Conference Systems software applications. The PKP Index includes more than 322000 records indexed from 1000 publications. The Index covers all subject areas and includes content from publishers from around the world. To be accepted into the Index, your journal, press, or conference site must include at least one article, chapter, or proceeding. The index is a curated list of publications and all submissions are reviewed and approved by PKP staff. The PKP Index is powered by PKP's own Open Harvester Systems. Please use the link to register http://index.pkp.sfu.ca/index.php/user/register for an account.

ResearchBib - Academic Recource Index Academic Recource Index — the product of ResearchBib. ResearchBib is open access with high standard indexing database for researchers and publishers. Research Bib may freely index journals, research papers, call for papers, research position. Journal Indexing. ResearchBib tries to cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals freely. The ResearchBib Journal Database is the largest complete journal database available on the internet freely. Journal Database try to cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The Journal Database contains 420,000+ journals from different publishers, which includes the title, abbreviation, journal host url, index, publisher, description (aims and scope), online ISSN and print ISSN etc.

Scientific Indexing Services (SIS) is the database that offering academic database services to researcher. It's mainly: citation indexing, analysis, and maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals, books, proceedings and any approved documents SIS maintains academic database services to researchers, journal editors and publishers. SIS Provides Quantitative And Qualitative Tool For Ranking, Evaluating And Categorizing The Journals For Academic Evaluation And Excellence. This Factor Is Used For Evaluating The Prestige Of Journals. The Evaluation Is Carried Out By Considering The Factors Like Paper Originality, Citation, Editorial Quality, and Regularity & International Presence. Services: Journal Indexing Service; Conference Indexing Service; Report The Fake and Hijacked Journals; SIS Certifications; SIS Impact Factor; SIS Advertisement.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - subscription catalog of American publishing Bowker, is the largest database that describes the global flow of periodicals in all subject areas

WorldCat is a global union catalog and the world's largest bibliographic database that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It contains more than 330 million records, representing over 2 billion physical and digital assets (articles, archival materials, books, journals, maps, music, videos, and other resources) in 485 languages.

CyberLeninka — Scientific Electronic Library is open access (Open Access), whose main objectives is to promote science and research activities, public control of quality of scientific publications, the development of interdisciplinary research institute of modern scientific review and improvement of Russian science citation.

Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine (SPU VNLU) Producer: Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine - project Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (VNLU). Ukrainian scientific periodicals contain articles from international journals in all fields of knowledge and carries out the completion of full-text electronic information resources, electronic counterparts publications or electronic publications provided by the owners. As part of an information resource "Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine" is adjusted full-text search of scientific publications in PDF format. VNLU spent working on the integration of information resource "Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine" to the interface of analytical services, Google Scholar (Google Academy). It contains approximately 2520 - journals; 25372 - issues; 628524 - full texts of articles.