[GOAL] Re: June 30 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

[Dana Roth]

While the DOAJ statistics Heather quotes are impressive ... I also keep up with Jeffrey Beall's efforts to identify "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals".   http://scholarlyoa.com/ 

Given the somewhat surprising number of OA publishers in India, I recently cross-checked the first 100, of the 608, titles listed in DOAJ that are published in India (Browse / by Country), with Beall's listings of publishers and journal titles.

I found 28 titles listed in DOAJ (out of the first 100), that are on Beall's list!

Since there are obviously many legitimate OA journals & publishers listed by DOAJ (e.g.  Current Science & Medknow Publications),  one would hope that DOAJ would apply some objective criteria for its listings.    http://www.doaj.org/ 

Dana

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Subject: [GOAL] June 30 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

...is now available.

Highlights; kudos to DOAJ for adding over 900 titles this quarter - more than 10 per year, for a total that is getting close to 10 thousand journals.  BASE added 3.6 million documents for a total of 47 million documents illustrating ongoing strong growth in the repository movement. PLOS ONE continues its amazing growth - over 23,000 articles publishing in 2012, up from just under 14 thousand in 2011 - in spite of the competition. And finally kudos and thanks to the Internet Archive for archiving literally billions of web pages this quarter.

Details:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/07/june-30-2013-dramatic-growth-of-open_4.html

best,

Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa's School of Information Studies / École des sciences de l'information Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/ _______________________________________________
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