From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 08:22:20 -0400
Gosh, Richard, this is disappointing. Best practices without academic
merit? What's the point?
I spend a great deal of my time working with professional societies to
help them establish OA services - I wrote about this a while ago:
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/01/05/making-a-case-for-open-access/
but the DOAJ policy is a real setback. In my experience authors put
the highest priority on the prestige of the journal they publish in.
Joe Esposito
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:32 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Richard James <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:28:51 -0400
>
> Joe, it states that it doesn't judge on 'academic merit', not 'academic
> standards', which is a completely different animal.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:06 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:28:31 -0400
> >
> > I must be missing something here. If the seal is bestowed for, among
> > other things, "publishing standards," how can it ignore academic
> > standards? Don't academic standards trump all other criteria?
> >
> > Joe Esposito
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:16 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Dominic Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:29:51 +0200
> > >
> > > In our continuing efforts to make it easier for authors, librarians,
> > > and readers to identify high quality open access journals, DOAJ has
> > > now activated its DOAJ Seal which is awarded to journals that adhere
> > > to high levels of openness, best practice and publishing standards.
> > >
> > > https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/doaj-seal-is-now-live-on-the-site/
> > >
> > > There are currently 88 journals in DOAJ that have the Seal. We've
> > > added a facet to the search so that users can identify Seal journals
> > > immediately. http://bit.ly/1S7wNxl
> > >
> > > It is important to note that DOAJ Seal does not and indeed cannot
> > > judge journals on their academic merit.
> > >
> > > Best, Dom
> > > Community Manager
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