From: "Gerritsma, Wouter" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:05:15 +0000

Dear Claire and other members of OASPA, COPE, DOAJ & WAME

Paper is patient. Journal will explain that they do peer review,
double blind, whatever you wish.
But I think you should award journals for their degree in transparency
for the peer review process.

http://wowter.net/2013/12/24/towards-five-stars-transparent-pre-publication-peer-review/

Yours sincerely
Wouter Gerritsma

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From: Claire Redhead <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:41:31 +0000

The Committee on Publication Ethics, the Directory of Open Access
Journals, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, and the
World Association of Medical Editors are scholarly organizations that
have seen an increase in the number of membership applications from
both legitimate and non-legitimate publishers and journals. Our
organizations have collaborated in an effort to identify principles of
transparency and best practice that set apart legitimate journals and
publishers from non-legitimate ones and to clarify that these
principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications
will be evaluated.

This is a work in progress and we welcome feedback on the general
principles and the specific criteria. Please see the full statement on
the OASPA blog (http://oaspa.org/blog/).

Claire Redhead
Membership & Communications Manager
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA http://oaspa.org/