Dear Dominic,
Yes, I know that DOAJ does not have a category ‘discounted journals’. That is a category in QOAM.
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?
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.
Leo.
Van: Dominic Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
Verzonden: donderdag 20 juni 2019 10:52
Onderwerp: No-fee journals
Dear Leo,
We need to correct something urgently.
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."
DOAJ does not use the label 'no fee' and discounted journals is not a classification that we make.
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
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