[BOAI] Re: Fwd: [GOAL] DOAJ announces new selection criteria

Thu Jun 13 15:15:15 BST 2013

Jan

Yes, Beall and DOAJ have different selection criteria.

David

On 13 Jun 2013, at 13:50, Jan Szczepanski wrote:

> Here is a new title in DOAJ. As you can see the Publisher is World
> Scholar. This Publisher is noted on
> 
> Beall’s List:Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly
> open-access Publishers.
> 
> http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
> 
> Any explanations?
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
> 
> ISSN/EISSN: 23290781 2329079X
> Publisher: World Scholars
> Subject: Multidisciplinary
> Country: United States Language: English
> Start year 2013
> Publication fee: Yes --- Further Information
> License:
> Added to DOAJ: 2013-06-12 13:51:41
> 
> 2013/6/12 Peter Suber <peter.suber at gmail.com>:
>> [Forwarding from the Directory of Open Access Journals, via the GOAL list.
>> --Peter Suber.]
>> 
>> The Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) is delighted to
>> announce new selection criteria and *hereby announces that these new
>> criteria are open for public comment until July 15th*.
>> 
>> The DOAJ-team has developed the criteria and our Advisory Board
>> (http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=about&uiLanguage=en#board)
>> has provided input and comments.
>> 
>> With the growth in the number of researc
>> 
>> h
>> funders, institutional open access policies and mandates, all stakeholders
>> involved – researchers (as authors and readers), research managers, staff
>> managing publication funds, librarians, universities and research funders -
>> need a trusted and reliable information resource that identifies good
>> quality open access journals and filters out disreputable publishers.
>> Equally, the former have a vested interest in not being associated with the
>> latter.
>> 
>> We have tried to construct objective criteria that can facilitate compliance
>> verification easily.
>> 
>> In order to be listed in the DOAJ, a journal must meet the following
>> criteria:
>> 
>> *
>> Journal will be asked to provide basic information (title, ISSN, etc.),
>> contact information, and information about journal policies
>> 
>> *
>> Journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO
>> 
>> *
>> 
>> Journal has an editorial board with clearly identifiable members (including
>> affiliation information)
>> 
>> *
>> Journal publishes a minimum of five articles per year (does not apply for
>> new journals)
>> 
>> *
>> Allows use and reuse at leastat the following levels (as specified in the
>> Open Access Spectrum, http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/):
>> - Full text, metadata, and citations of articles can be crawled and accessed
>> with permission (Machine Readability Level 4)
>> - Provides free readership rights to all articles immediately upon
>> publication (Reader Rights Level 1)
>> - Reuse is subject to certain restrictions; no remixing (Reuse Rights Level
>> 3)
>> - Allow authors to retain copyright in their article with no restrictions
>> (Copyrights Level 1)
>> - Author can post the final, peer-reviewed manuscript version (postprint) to
>> any repository or website (Author Posting Rights Level 2)
>> 
>> You may review the complete list of criteria here:
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlFw8p9XB3C6dHE3ZC1Hd2FMMjAweE96czRQb3NDbnc&usp=sharing
>> 
>> Future submissions for inclusion in to DOAJ must include the complete set of
>> information provided by the publisher. This information will be publicly
>> available in the Directory. The journals currently listed in the DOAJ will
>> have to go through a re-evaluation process based on the new criteria. This
>> work will take place over the next 12 months or so.
>> 
>> *DOAJ Seal of Approval* At the same time we are launching the DOAJ Seal of
>> Approval for Open Access Journals (in short: the DOAJ Seal) to encourage a
>> high practice standard. These journals will be identified with the DOAJ Seal
>> logo.
>> 
>> In addition to the more general criteria, above, required for inclusion in
>> the DOAJ, the following criteria must be met for a journal to receive the
>> DOAJ Seal:
>> 
>> *
>> Provides machine readable copyright information to help search engines
>> identify open works
>> 
>> *
>> Provides DOIs at the article level
>> 
>> *
>> Provides metadata to DOAJ at the article level
>> 
>> *
>> Has a digital archiving/preservation arrangement in place
>> 
>> *
>> Allows use and reuse at least at the following levels (as specified in the
>> Open Access Spectrum, http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/):
>> + Allows a community standard API or other protocol to crawl or access full
>> text, metadata, citations, and data (including supplementary data) for
>> articles (Open Access Spectrum: Machine Readability Level 2)
>> + Ensures generous reuse and remixing rights (Open Access Spectrum: Reuse
>> Rights Level 1)
>> + Allows authors to post any version of their article to any repository or
>> website (Open Access Spectrum: Author Posting Rights Level 1)
>> 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++
>> 
>> We are confident that the new criteria will positively contribute to the
>> transparency of open access. Since open access journals are a relatively new
>> phenomenon, and one that is continuously changing, we will probably have to
>> revise the criteria in a couple of years to keep them current and up to
>> date.
>> 
>> To avoid any misunderstanding, we are restating DOAJ’s scope here:
>> 
>> The DOAJ has the ambition to continue to be the white list of open access
>> journals that are global in scope in terms of geography, scientific
>> discipline and language.
>> 
>> In scope: Journals that provide immediate access to scholarly articles
>> without reader payment, including back-files from those journals made freely
>> available after transitioning to open access.
>> 
>> Not in scope: Single articles from subscription based journals made freely
>> available under an open access option (hybrid articles).
>> 
>> Articles from subscription based journals made freely available after an
>> embargo period (so-called delayed open access – not a term in our
>> dictionary).
>> 
>> Your comments on the new criteria are much appreciated and will contribute
>> toward their implementation. Comments must be received before 6pm CEST on
>> Monday 15th July 2013 and should be sent to the DOAJ Community Manager
>> Dominic Mitchell (dom at doaj.org).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Lars Bjørnshauge
>> 
>> Managing Director, DOAJ
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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