Editorial: The National Repository of Academic Texts and the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology

Abstract

Editorial teams with their publishers of all peer-reviewed journals in the world dream and strive to include journals in as many databases as they can. Journals that were "born" in Ukraine must go through their path of self-affirmation first on the Ukrainian scientific market, and then, or even in parallel, in the international academic world. One of the key factors in the recognition by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine of a peer-reviewed publication as a scientific professional publication of category "B" is the inclusion of this publication (1) in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine and (2) in the National Repository of Academic Texts (NRAT). Peer-reviewed publications assigned category "A" or "B" are included in the list of scientific professional publications of Ukraine, in which the results of dissertations for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Sciences (ScD) may be published. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the aspects of including the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (JDTOMP) in the NRAT and the process of depositing articles. "Proclamation (i.e., Regulations) on the National Repository of Academic Texts" was approved by Decree No. 541 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated July 19, 2017. According to the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated October 25, 2017, No. 1421 "On the Manager of the NRAT," the Manager of the NRAT is the State Scientific Institution "Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information." The article lists the areas of responsibility of the NRAT Manager. Also, a complete list of academic texts that can be accepted into the NRAT is provided. For clarity, both the article of our journal deposited in the NRAT and the step-by-step illustrated mechanism for depositing articles are presented. In the modern publishing world, increasing the prestige of a journal and getting into the top-rated databases is impossible without the journal's gradual colonization of both institutional and national repositories. Broadly speaking, open access repositories are key to the ability not only of institutions but also of journals to respond to future needs for more dynamic cross‐boundary communications services, articles dissemination and editorial collaboration.