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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Bo-Christer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am aware of the really useful studies your group makes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">However, I am looking into the the transparence of the eer review process on the journals side.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A self included analysis on the journals side, say yearly, on the number of submissions, the acceptance rates would be helpful as an indicators for transparence
of the peer review process. Another of such examples is thanking the peer reviewers eg.
</span><a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0737-8831&volume=31&issue=4&articleid=17099955&show=html">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0737-8831&volume=31&issue=4&articleid=17099955&show=html</a> In that case you have an indication
that additional people (beyonf the editorial board) wer involved in the peer review process.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your reading tips. But it is not exactly what I was looking for.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wouter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bo-Christer Björk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> zaterdag 21 december 2013 18:27<br>
<b>To:</b> goal@eprints.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: Joint Statement on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You could check out<br>
<a href="http://openaccesspublishing.org/oa11/article.pdf">http://openaccesspublishing.org/oa11/article.pdf</a><br>
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as well as <br>
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<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157713000710">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157713000710</a><br>
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green version<br>
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<a href="http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto/preprints/Journalacceptancerates.pdf">http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto/preprints/Journalacceptancerates.pdf</a><br>
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Bo-Christer<br>
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On 12/21/13 5:43 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">With regards to this really excellent initiative I am looking in to the various degrees in transparency of the peer review process. Has anybody examples at hand of editorials, where
they give an overview of number of articles submitted, and ultimately accepted, and the time the whole cycle from submission to final publication actually took. So now and then I have seen this in journals, but can’t find any example right now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I would be grateful for some hints.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Wouter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Wouter Gerritsma<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Team leader research support<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">PO box 9100<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">++31 3174 83052<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="mailto:Wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl%0d">Wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wowter.net/">wowter.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">#AWCP
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/mk65m36">http://tinyurl.com/mk65m36</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Claire Redhead<br>
<b>Sent:</b> donderdag 19 december 2013 16:41<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Joint Statement on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">The
<a href="http://publicationethics.org/%E2%80%8E">Committee on Publication Ethics</a>, the
<a href="http://www.doaj.org/">Directory of Open Access Journals</a>, the <a href="http://oaspa.org/">
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association</a>, and the <a href="http://www.wame.org/">
World Association of Medical Editors</a> are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number of membership applications from both legitimate and non-legitimate publishers and journals. Our organizations have collaborated in an effort to identify
principles of transparency and best practice that set apart legitimate journals and publishers from non-legitimate ones and to clarify that these principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications will be evaluated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">This is a work in progress and we welcome feedback on the general principles and the specific criteria. Please see the
<a href="http://oaspa.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing/">
full statement</a> on the OASPA blog (<a href="http://oaspa.org/blog/">http://oaspa.org/blog/</a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
Claire Redhead<br>
Membership & Communications Manager<br>
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA<br>
<a href="http://oaspa.org/">http://oaspa.org/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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