From: leo waaijers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 13:22:38 +0200

To all QOAM supporters and followers,



Quality Open Access Market – QOAM – has changed course, from now on
concentrating solely on academic authors who are prepared to share their
experience with editorial boards and peer review processes. The analysis of
journal web sites by libraries has been discarded as this has proven not to
be successful. Publication fees, both list prices and institutional
discounts, will remain included.  The new version of QOAM
<https://www.qoam.eu/journals> has been launched last week.



QOAM is now a straightforward ‘Think, Check, Submit’ tool. Publishers may
use it to invite their authors to give calibrated feedback (QOAM has a
straightforward group invitation tool) and then include the scores into
their own database (QOAM’s data can be freely mined). Libraries may use it
to set up QOAM corners <https://www.qoam.eu/corners>, which are bespoke
market places for their clientele, e.g. for a project team, an institution,
or a conference, and funders may use it to compare prices. First and
foremost, however, QOAM is meant as a go-to tool for authors looking for a
journal to submit their article to, and set up their personal list of
preferred journals in myQOAM <https://www.qoam.eu/tools#QOAMcorner>.



If you have any comments or wishes, please don’t hesitate to contact me.



Greetings,

Leo Waaijers.

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