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

[Dana Roth]

On the contrary ... wouldn't it be more instructive if DOAJ would annotate their listings with a icon indicating that a journal or the journals from an identified publisher has 'made' Beall's List?

Given the on-going concern about achieving broad acceptance of Open Access journals by researchers, wouldn't it be helpful to provide some guidance to help preclude a negative experience?

All the best,

Dana L. Roth
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125
626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540
dzrlib at library.caltech.edu
http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm
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Subject: [GOAL] Re: June 30 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

The DOAJ Selection Criteria are posted here:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=about&uiLanguage=en#criteria

The open consultation process for the next version of the DOAJ selection
criteria, as earlier promoted on the GOAL list, can be found here:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=303

I would argue that DOAJ has the most transparent, objective list of
journals (open access or not) in existence. Many of us use Ulrich's as an
authoritative journal list, for example, yet I have not been able to find
their definition of "open access", and (someone correct me if I am wrong)
I believe that whether a journal is listed as peer-reviewed or not depends
on self-reporting.

Useful as I believe Beall's list to be, it may be that it needs updating,
so may I suggest that you send the list of journals on DOAJ to Beall?

best,

Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
University of Ottawa School of Information Studies
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca


> 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
>
> Dana L. Roth
> Caltech 1-32
> 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125
> 626-395-6423  fax 626-792-7540
> dzrlib at library.caltech.edu
> http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
> Of Heather Morrison
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 8:51 AM
> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); SPARC Open Access Forum;
> LibLicense-L Discussion Forum; scholcomm at ala.org T.F.
> 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
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