From: Fred Jenkins <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:06:47 -0400

What is disappointing is that so many OA advocates seem more concerned
with protecting OA journals than with protecting readers from unreliable
science.

Fred W. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations
University of Dayton Libraries
106A Roesch Library
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-1360


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 5:22 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Rebecca Kennison <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:39:30 -0400
>
> While of course the sting was a travesty, I'm not entirely sure that
> the DOAJ response has been what I'd have hoped to see either. I'm most
> interested in this sentence in Dom's post: "DOAJ decided that the
> remaining journals would also be removed from the Directory as quickly
> as possible and an email sent to each, explaining why this has been
> done." What troubles me about this statement is that it seems to
> indicate the lack of any kind of a review process, much less a
> transparent one.
>
> Because all journal editors make mistakes, why not first discuss with
> the editors of these journals what their process for peer review might
> be, undertake an audit of the work published otherwise by the journal,
> and work with the journals to improve their process, rather than
> simply removing them out of hand based on criteria that might not be
> entirely clear to anyone other than DOAJ?
>
> Further, because the majority of the journals that accepted the paper
> were in the global South, is not the same criticism DOAJ has leveled
> at Bohannon, that he implied poor-quality work comes from Africa, the
> same criticism that could now be leveled at DOAJ itself -- that it
> implies they feel poor-quality peer review is rampant in the global
> South and thus not even worth a discussion with the editors?
>
> What could've been a teachable moment for the OA community in
> strengthening its standards instead seems to have become solely a
> defensive move on the part of DOAJ. I am, to be honest, very
> disappointed by that.
>
> Rebecca Kennison