From: "Lars Bjørnshauge" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:04:54 +0200
Joe,
Beall did not initiate this process!
The work on new inclusion criteria for journals to be listed in the
DOAJ started december 2012:
http://doajournals.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/proactive-not-reactive/.
The issue is not only, far from only, business ethics - it is about
re-use rights, openness, peer-review, archiving, etc - check the
application form - http://doaj.org/application/new
You might be interested in a recent presentation about the
developments around DOAJ -
http://www.slideshare.net/ASSAf_Official/motivating-and-helping-publishers-towards-best-practice-the-new-criteria-for-inclusion-in-the-directory-of-open-access-journals-doaj?qid=a154958d-2d42-4399-97b9-c2a0a3bedba3&v=default&b=&from_search=4
- and one about questionable publishing -
http://www.slideshare.net/doaj/lars-nsef-meeting-cape-town-july-30th-2014?qid=30a7edea-6984-4232-9e87-58ba7a3404f6&v=default&b=&from_search=7
The questional publishers on the black list are in fact completely
marginal in terms of volume of article published.and if only
researchers would think and check even for 5 mins, and use some of the
checklists that are available, the questionable publishers would be
completely out of business.
Lars Bjørnshauge
Managing Director DOAJ
mobile phone: +45 53 51 06 03
Skype-Id: lbj-lub0603
Twitter: elbjoern0603
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2014-08-11 0:42 GMT+02:00 LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:32:17 -0400
>
> We should note as well the role of Jeffrey Beall in initiating a process
> that began this reformation. Beall is a controversial figure, but with
> activists it is possible to eat a la carte.
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 1:25 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:41:59 -0400
> >
> > See the following article regarding a re-vamp of the DOAJ. Kudos to
> > the DOAJ for taking on this overhaul.
> >
> > "Now, following criticism of its quality-control checks, the website
> > is asking all of the journals in its directory to reapply on the basis
> > of stricter criteria. It hopes the move will weed out ‘predatory
> > journals’: those that profess to publish research openly, often
> > charging fees, but that are either outright scams or do not provide
> > the services a scientist would expect, such as a minimal standard of
> > peer review or permanent archiving."
> >
> > http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-website-gets-tough-1.15674?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Copyright%20%26%20A2K%20Issues%20-%208%20August%202014
> >
> > [Also see the 5 August liblicense-l posting (reproduced below) linking
> > to West/Bergstrom's article about economic considerations in
> > submitting to OA journals. The work considers the relationship
> > between APCs and journal prestige.]
> >
> > Jevin West, Ted Bergstrom, Carl Bergstrom. Cost Effectiveness of Open
> > Access Publications.
> >
> > http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1132&context=ted_bergstrom
> >
> > To be published in Fall 2014: Economic Inquiry 52.4 (2014)
> >
> > [A journal from Western Economic Association & Wiley]
> >
> > Abstract
> >
> > Open access publishing has been proposed as one possible solution to
> > the serials crisis—the rapidly growing subscription prices in
> > scholarly journal publishing. However, open access publishing can
> > present economic pitfalls as well, such as excessive article
> > processing charges. We discuss the decision that an author faces when
> > choosing to submit to an open access journal. We develop an
> > interactive tool to help authors compare among alternative open access
> > venues and thereby get the most for their article processing charges.
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