From: Dominic Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:28:55 +0200
Hi Leo
Now I understand. Thanks.
The information which we collect and display in DOAJ is for authors, for
the practical purpose of helping them. We ask the question about APCs so
that we can display the answer alongside a journal's entry in DOAJ, to help
authors make an informed decision about publishing in a journal. An author
using DOAJ for that decision-making process will only be interested in
knowing if s/he or someone has to pay.
I am led to believe that SCOAP3 is not a new thing and indeed the journals
you mention were added to DOAJ in 2015, 2016 and 2017 so listing these as
such is not a recent change.
I hope that helps clarify things.
All the best, Dom
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Best, Dom
DOAJ Operations Manager
ORCID 0000-0003-2432-7035
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 11:54, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Dominic,
>
>
>
> Yes, I know that DOAJ does not have a category ‘discounted journals’. That
> is a category in QOAM.
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> DOAJ does have the option to select ‘No article processing charges’. There
> I find also the Elsevier and Springer journals I mentioned before. These
> journals do charge publication fees, however, be it that libraries are
> footing the bill. And that will be the case with more and more journals in
> all kind of deals. Will DOAJ include these journals in their ‘No article
> processing charges’ category as well?
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> Until recently, for me the journals in the DOAJ-category ‘No article
> processing charges’ were identical with no-fee journals or diamond/platinum
> journals. Please, enlighten me.
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>
>
> Leo.
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> *Van:* Dominic Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
> *Verzonden:* donderdag 20 juni 2019 10:52
> *Aan:* Liblicense <[log in to unmask]>; leo waaijers <
> [log in to unmask]>
> *Onderwerp:* No-fee journals
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> Dear Leo,
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>
> We need to correct something urgently.
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> You wrote: 'Recently, DOAJ started to apply the term no-fee to some
> journals of category 2a as well.' where your category 2a is "Discounted
> journals. These journals are included in deals (membership, offsetting,
> RaP, PaR) where libraries pay in part or wholly the publication fees so
> that authors have to pay less or nothing at all."
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> DOAJ does not use the label 'no fee' and discounted journals is not a
> classification that we make.
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> What I *think* you might mean is that you have found journals which are
> discounted, by your own definition, to be in our 'No APCs' filter in our
> Search. http://bit.ly/1HQQZ2w. Am I right? We've only ever had a simple
> yes/no answer to the question: 'Does this journal have article processing
> charges' (https://doaj.org/application/new#processing_charges-container).
>
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> Best, Dom
> DOAJ Operations Manager
>
> ORCID 0000-0003-2432-7035
>
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