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 ---------------------------- Universitätsverlag Göttingen ǀ University Press Goettingen * univerlag.uni-goettingen.de Elektronische Dissertationen ǀ Electronic Dissertations * sub.uni-goettingen.de/elektronisches-publizieren/ Institutional Repository * goedoc.uni-goettingen.de/goescholar/ ---------------------------- Open Access * www.open-access.net * www.openaire.eu