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.