[GOAL] Re: Open-access in Brazil,

[Guédon Jean-Claude]

What Jeffrey Beall should have said is that the Brazilian national list of legitimate scientific journals (Qualis) has occasionally allowed some predatory journals to be included. Obviously, many people, including the journalist quoted by Beall, are doing their job in helping to clean up this list, and this is good. However, this is not directly related to Open Access in general and the header of Beall's message is, therefore, quite misleading.

Equating open access with predatory journals is simply not correct. Predatory journals practise APC-OA in an unacceptable way, but most APC-OA journals are not predatory; furthermore, there are OA journals that  do not finance themselves with APC's at all, including many in Brazil. Scielo's business plan is certainly not conducive to predatory practise, for example.

APC-Gold publishing (as distinguished from pure Gold), alas, does provide a business model that can also be exploited by individuals and organizations that just want to act as polluting parasites. This is not a negative judgement on APC-Gold, but we must be aware that opens the door to such misbehaviour. DOAJ's white list of journals is a useful tool in this context. If we all pitch in, we can make it an even better tool.

Jean-Claude Guédon




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Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2015 15:41
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Objet : [GOAL] Open-access in Brazil,

Perhaps of interest to subscribers of this list, here are links to six blog posts on scholarly open-access journals in Brazil written by Brazilian journalist and science writer Maurício Tuffani. He writes for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Originally written in Portuguese, the blog posts have been translated to English.

· Fasten your seat belts, the editor is gone!<http://mauriciotuffani.blogfolha.uol.com.br/fasten-your-seat-belts-the-editor-is-gone/> (March 21)
· The 'quantum' evaluation of scientific journals in Brazil<http://mauriciotuffani.blogfolha.uol.com.br/the-quantum-evaluation-of-scientific-journals-in-brazil/> (March 16)
· Brazilian graduate programs accept 201 'predatory' journals<http://mauriciotuffani.blogfolha.uol.com.br/brazilian-graduate-programs-accept-201-predatory-journals/> (March 9)
· In science, bad for Malaysia is good for Brazil<http://mauriciotuffani.blogfolha.uol.com.br/in-science-bad-for-malaysia-is-good-for-brazil/> (March 7)
· Fake Professor edits journal selected by CAPES<http://mauriciotuffani.blogfolha.uol.com.br/fake-professor-edits-journal-selected-by-capes/> (March 6)
—Jeffrey Beall