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<font size=3>[Forwarding from Monica Hammes. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
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1. As part of its OA Day celebrations
(<a href="http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/oaday.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/oaday.htm</a>) the University of
Pretoria Library Services launched its list of Accredited Open Access
Journals South Africa (AOAJSA)
(<a href="http://www.library.up.ac.za/aoajsa.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.library.up.ac.za/aoajsa.htm</a>) . The 600 titles are all
listed in one or more of the following and hence qualify for the South
African Department of Education's university subsidy scheme:<br><br>
Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded <br>
Web of Science Social Sciences Citation Index <br>
Web of Science Arts & Humanities Citation Index <br>
IBSS Journal List<br>
DoE List of Accredited South African Journals<br><br>
In South Africa university researchers will not publish in open access
journals unless they are also seen to be reputable and the publication
fee is affordable. Accreditation by the DoE is viewed a basic
indicator of a journal's reputation and publishing in one of these
journals will earn the university and the researcher some money.<br><br>
2. We also decided to use the annual OA Day to review the progress that
we are making with open access and have created an OA Scorecard
(<a href="http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/scorecard.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/scorecard.htm</a>).<br><br>
Regards<br>
Monica<br>
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