[GOAL] Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'
Reme Melero
rmelero at iata.csic.es
Thu Mar 27 08:20:09 GMT 2014
Good morning,
The Oak list database (http://www.oaklist.qut.edu.au/) could help you to
search publishers and journals published in Australia classified
according ROMEO/SHERPA colors, which is an indication of their openness.
Regards from a the Mediterranean coast under a blue sky.
Reme
El 27/03/2014 00:26, Danny Kingsley escribió:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Thank you for the responses sent through to my specific question about
> a particular publisher being identified as 'Australian'. It has
> sparked a secondary discussion about the value or otherwise of
> locating a publisher in a particular country -- and the value
> judgements that might be subsequently assigned.
>
> While this in itself is a worthwhile discussion, I would like to note
> the reason why I was trying to establish the number of Australian OA
> journals in the first place.
>
> In OA advocacy (which is primarily my job) much of what needs to be
> done is convince people (either individual researchers , institutions
> or governments) that open access is worthwhile, worth investing in and
> also that any investment has been well spent. To do this we need
> numbers and benchmarks. I can't speak for other places around the
> world but in Australia we are having difficulty obtaining even basic
> information about where we stand internationally in open access stakes.
>
> While we were early adopters of institutional repository software and
> have full coverage across out institutions of operational
> repositories, over one quarter of our universities have open access
> policies and our two primary government funding bodies have open
> access policies we do not know whether this has translated into a high
> level of open access research here. A paper about the Australian
> situation is here
> http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/39/121
>
> We do not currently have any automated way of knowing how much
> material is available within repositories as full text open access nor
> do we know what percentage of the previous year's research is now
> available open access (which could be benchmarked). On the other road,
> we could potentially create a system to pull information from our
> publication reporting to find out what we are publishing in fully open
> access journals (but we don't have it now), and we do not know what or
> where we are spending on APCs (so we have very little idea about how
> much we are publishing as hybrid OA).
>
> One number that relatively simply could be collected is the number of
> open access journals Australia is publishing. Hence the original question.
>
> Danny
>
> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Jean-Claude Guédon
> *Sent:* Thursday, 27 March 2014 2:00 AM
> *To:* goal at eprints.org
> *Subject:* [GOAL] Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed
> as 'Australian'
>
> Beall's remark about the importance of the country where a publication
> is located, if he is right, fully demonstrates how stupid the
> evaluation process has become. The next step, I suppose, is to create
> a ranking of countries and thus establish their status with regard to
> scientific publishing. It also leads to really weird forms of
> reasoning such as: a press in Brazil, or India, or China, or Russia,
> is obviously not as good as a press in the US, in Britain, in Holland,
> etc... What about Italy? Greece? Portugal? What about Mexico? What
> about South Africa? What about the rest of Africa? Is Australia OK?
>
> How many implicit forms of racism or cultural arrogance are hidden in
> such a perspective?
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
>
>
>
>
> Le mardi 25 mars 2014 à 17:42 -0600, Beall, Jeffrey a écrit :
>
> Danny,
>
>
>
> I have been monitoring this publisher closely recently. I regularly
> receive inquiries about it -- researchers asking me whether it is
> predatory or not.
>
>
>
> I currently do not have it included on the list of predatory
> publishers. Contrary to an opinion expressed earlier, for many, the
> country of publication is very important. Researchers in many
> countries get more academic credit towards tenure, promotion, and the
> annual evaluation when they publish in a journal based in a western
> country. (This is why many predatory publishers often pretend to be
> from western countries).
>
>
>
> I recently posted an inquiry on this list seeking comments about this
> company's peer-review portability policy (it allows authors themselves
> to transfer peer reviews from the rejecting publisher to Ivyspring.)
>
>
>
> Ivyspring until recently said it was based in Wyoming, NSW. Now
> they've changed their official address to this:
>
>
>
> Ivyspring International Publisher Pty Ltd
> Level 32, 1 Market Street
> Sydney, NSW 2000
> Australia
>
>
>
> That address matches the address of Alliance Business Centers
> <http://www.abcn.com/offices-sydney--level-32-1-market-street-3264>, a
> virtual office company. Also, according to an Australian business
> directory, the publisher's owner is Jinxin Jason Lin.
>
>
>
> I think it's safe to say this company lacks needed transparency. Who
> owns it? Where are they based? What experience do the owners have with
> scholarly publishing? Why are they using a virtual office as their
> headquarters address? What is the extent of this company's connection
> to Australia? To other countries?
>
>
>
> --Jeffrey Beall
>
> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>
> [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] *On Behalf Of *Danny Kingsley
> *Sent:* Monday, March 24, 2014 10:46 PM
> *To:* 'goal at eprints.org'
> *Subject:* [GOAL] Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed
> as 'Australian'
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I recently looked at the DOAJ list of Australian journals to
> determine how many Australian OA journals charge an APC. Of the
> list of 115 journals on the DOAJ, 12 charge an APC.
>
>
>
> However on investigation seven of these 12 do not appear to be
> Australian journals at all.
>
>
>
> There is no definitive list of Australian OA journals -- the AOASG
> page
> http://aoasg.org.au/open-access-in-action/australian-oa-journals/
> lists 150 (compared to the smaller DOAJ list) and before I
> investigated this it did not include the five genuinely OA
> Australian journals that charge an APC.
>
>
>
> My questions are:
>
> · Does anyone know why these journals would be appearing on
> DOAJ as 'Australian'?
>
> · Five of them are published by Ivyspring International
> Publishers -- does anyone know anything about this publisher?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Danny
>
>
>
> Journal
>
>
>
> Publisher
>
>
>
> APC
>
>
>
> Notes
>
> /Journal of Genomics <http://www.jgenomics.com/>/
>
>
>
> Ivyspring International Publisher
>
>
>
> No publication charge during the current promotional period of
> this journal
>
>
>
> Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the
> Editorial Board.
>
> /Theranostics <http://www.thno.org/>/
>
>
>
> Ivyspring International Publisher
>
>
>
> $100AUD
>
>
>
> Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in
> the Editorial Board
>
> /International Journal of Electronics, Engineering and Computer
> Systems <http://www.irphouse.com/elect/ijece.htm>/
>
>
>
> International Research Publication House
>
>
>
> $150USD
>
>
>
> Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in
> the Editorial Board
>
> /Asian Journal of Crop Science
> <http://scialert.net/current.php?issn=1994-7879>/
>
>
>
> Asian Network for Scientific Information
>
>
>
> $370AUD
>
>
>
> There is no direct website for the journal and it is difficult to
> determine the countries the Editorial Board come from
>
> /Journal of Cancer <http://www.jcancer.org/>/
>
>
>
> Ivyspring International Publisher
>
>
>
> $1100AUD
>
>
>
> Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the
> Editorial Board.
>
> /International Journal of Biological Sciences <http://www.ijbs.com/>/
>
>
>
> Ivyspring International Publisher
>
>
>
> $1450AUD
>
>
>
> Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the
> Editorial Board.
>
> /International Journal of Medical Sciences <http://www.medsci.org/>/
>
>
>
> Ivyspring International Publisher
>
>
>
> $1450AUD
>
>
>
> Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the
> Editorial Board.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Dr Danny Kingsley*
>
> *------------------------------------------*
>
> Executive Officer
>
> Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
>
> Menzies Library, Building 2
>
> The Australian National University
>
> Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
>
>
>
> E: danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au <mailto:danny.kingsley at anu.edu.au>
>
> P: +612 6125 6839
>
> W: http://aoasg.org.au
>
> T: @openaccess_oz
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> NOTE: I work three days a week: Mondays (on campus), Tuesdays and
> Thursdays. I think about open access 24/7.
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>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
> Professeur titulaire
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