From: Andrew Waller <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:38:56 +0000

There is most definitely a need to deal with this issue going forward but what about the 170+ journals that have gone missing? Perhaps there is a crowd sourcing solution to track these down, if possible? A group of folks from the library and publishing (and other) worlds take a crack at finding this content. I’d be up for it.

Andrew

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From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:06:13 +1000

Hi all,

This is very concerning. I have ‘rescued’ a few journals in my time - small journals often run for years by one person who has or is retiring and the journal has been hosted on a departmental webpage which is being updated. Putting the back catalogue into a repository at least collects the information - it doesn’t necessarily display it the way a journal would but it is better than nothing.

Collectively we need to consider how to address this issue. How aware are people of the publishing that is occurring within their own institutions? Academic-led publishing takes multiple forms, and the people doing the work may not have much awareness of wider issues, like registering with DOAJ or CLOCKSS.

Danny

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On 10 Sep 2020, at 10:44, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 20:20:49 -0400

"Eighty-four online-only, open-access (OA) journals in the sciences,
and nearly 100 more in the social sciences and humanities, have
disappeared from the internet over the past 2 decades as publishers
stopped maintaining them, potentially depriving scholars of useful
research findings, a study has found.

"An additional 900 journals published only online also may be at risk
of vanishing because they are inactive, says a preprint posted on 3
September on the arXiv server. The number of OA journals tripled from
2009 to 2019, and on average the vanished titles operated for nearly
10 years before going dark, which “might imply that a large number …
is yet to vanish,” the authors write."

[SNIP]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/dozens-scientific-journals-have-vanished-internet-and-no-one-preserved-them