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.