From: Jan Szczepanski <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:52:52 +0200 Dear All, A good step forward in Germany would be to ask the Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek to be more cautious what to include. DOAJ has delted a lot of predatory journals, EZ B has not. You have to demand a better and more careful selection of titles if libraries still want to be a guarantee for quality. Jan Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: [log in to unmask] 2015-09-11 3:31 GMT+02:00 LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>: > > From: "Bargheer, Margo Friederike" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:07:43 +0000 > > Dear All, > as it became obvious in the last years, running black lists on > malpractice in publishing quickly opens up new problems. Just a few > days ago in a panel discussion during the Open Access Days in Zürich > one of the panelists, a life science researcher, accused an Open > Access publisher as predatory because he had received an unqualified > invitation for a review. The questioned publisher is a member of OASPA > and serves the needs of several research communities very well -- > however obviously not exactly the one of our panelist. > > Instead of black lists run by individuals and thus depending on their > personal judgement I think we need white lists resting on practice and > crowd-sourced effort. > > The platform "Quality Open Access Market" > > https://www.qoam.eu/about > > seems quite promising to me [disclaimer: I am positively biased]. It > rests on a division of labor: librarians or institutional staff feed > the general metadata of scholarly Open Access journals into the > system, active contributors (authors and editors) evaluate the > journal's quality. > > In Göttingen I would like to set our workflows as such that each > author we support with our central Open Access publication fund > receives an invitation to score the journals he/she has just published > in. This also against the backdrop that authors have to meet funder's > requirements to publish OA and increasingly ask for the library's > advice on how to judge the quality of Open Access journals. > > Greetings from Göttingen > > Margo Bargheer > > Leitung Elektronisches Publizieren ǀ Head of Electronic Publishing > ---------------------------- > Georg-August-Universität Göttingen > Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen > State and University Library Goettingen > > tel +49 (0)551 39-91188 ǀ fax +49 (0)551 39-22457 > [log in to unmask] > www.sub.uni-goettingen.de