From: Jan Szczepanski <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:52:52 +0200

Dear All,

A good step forward in Germany would be to ask the Elektronische
Zeitschriftenbibliothek
to be more cautious what to include. DOAJ has delted a lot of
predatory journals, EZ B has
not. You have to demand a better and more careful selection of titles
if libraries still want
to be a guarantee for quality.

Jan

Jan Szczepański
F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora,
vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
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2015-09-11 3:31 GMT+02:00 LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> From: "Bargheer, Margo Friederike" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:07:43 +0000
>
> Dear All,
> as it became obvious in the last years, running black lists on
> malpractice in publishing quickly opens up new problems. Just a few
> days ago in a panel discussion during the Open Access Days in Zürich
> one of the panelists, a life science researcher, accused an Open
> Access publisher as predatory because he had received an unqualified
> invitation for a review. The questioned publisher is a member of OASPA
> and serves the needs of several research communities very well --
> however obviously not exactly the one of our panelist.
>
> Instead of black lists run by individuals and thus depending on their
> personal judgement I think we need white lists resting on practice and
> crowd-sourced effort.
>
> The platform "Quality Open Access Market"
>
> https://www.qoam.eu/about
>
> seems quite promising to me [disclaimer: I am positively biased]. It
> rests on a division of labor: librarians or institutional staff feed
> the general metadata of scholarly Open Access journals into the
> system, active contributors (authors and editors) evaluate the
> journal's quality.
>
> In Göttingen I would like to set our workflows as such that each
> author we support with our central Open Access publication fund
> receives an invitation to score the journals he/she has just published
> in. This also against the backdrop that authors have to meet funder's
> requirements to publish OA and increasingly ask for the library's
> advice on how to judge the quality of Open Access journals.
>
> Greetings from Göttingen
>
> Margo Bargheer
>
> Leitung Elektronisches Publizieren ǀ Head of Electronic Publishing
> ----------------------------
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> Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
> State and University Library Goettingen
>
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