From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:17:08 -0600

I think it improbable that a publisher with a journal with a high
impact factor is going to be ashamed about anything.

Joe Esposito

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:48 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Collette Mak <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:46:18 -0400
>
> If your point is that a journal can be a crummy journal that publishes
> utter tripe and still adhere to best publishing practices then, yup,
> you're right. You're also right that it would be a really bad thing
> for people to confuse "best practice" with scholarly merit and there
> will likely be some will confuse the two.  That said, scholarly metric
> and high standards for transparency are not mutually exclusive
> propositions.  Publishers that adhere to best practices for
> transparency and ethics should be allowed to say so.  Authors are
> unlikely to forgo impact factors in favor of a best practices seal but
> a high impact open access journal that DOESN'T adhere to those
> standards ought to be ashamed of itself and gets it's ducks in a row
> so that it can qualify for the seal.
>
> Collette
>
> Collette Mak
> Outreach and Scholarly Communications Librarian
> Hesburgh Libraries
> University of Notre Dame
> Notre Dame, IN 46556
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