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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Dana,<br>
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Unfortunately this is only partly true. The "epub ahead of print"
practices vary a lot. Even though articles after acceptance could
be copy-edited straight away and posted, editors and publishers
don't want to have excessive lists of dozens of articles up there,
especially if they haven't been assigned issues and page numbers
yet. That would in itself be bad publicity. For instance JASIST
in which I have published several articles recently tends to put
up eprints a couple of months before final publishing, which means
they could have waited half a year from acceptance already.<br>
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A real horror story of a journal is Journal of Civil Engineering
and Management (a Tailor and Frances journal, but essentially run
by editors from a Lithuanian university). Together with a collegue
we had an article accepted in March 2012 which still is waiting to
be published. And they don't do epubs before print. While this is
bad service their practice of publishing articles from Lituanian
colleagues much faster than the rest (can be studied at the
websiteI) is clearly unethical.<br>
<br>
Bo-Christer<br>
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On 12/21/13 8:52 PM, Dana Roth wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Re:
</span> <span>“Publishing in scholarly peer reviewed journals
usually entails long delays from submission to publication.
In part this is due to the length of the peer review process
and <b>in part because of the dominating tradition of
publication in issues</b>, earlier a necessity of
paper‐based publishing, which creates backlogs of
manuscripts waiting in line.” … in:
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<pre><span>Isn’t is generally true (at least in the science and technology fields) that ‘</span><span>Epub ahead of print’ publishing practices have obviated delays in waiting for issues to be completed?</span></pre>
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<pre><span>I understand that in mathematics and other fields that delays between ‘Epub ahead of print’ and the final completed issue can stretch out for ~a year.</span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dana L. Roth</span><span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bo-Christer Björk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 21, 2013 9:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: Joint Statement on Principles
of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly
Publishing</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You could check out<br>
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as well as <br>
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green version<br>
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href="http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Esugimoto/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:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would be grateful for some hints.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wouter</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">#AWCP
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Claire Redhead<br>
<b>Sent:</b> donderdag 19 december 2013 16:41<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://publicationethics.org/%E2%80%8E">Committee
on Publication Ethics</a>, the
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.doaj.org/">Directory
of Open Access Journals</a>, the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://oaspa.org/">
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association</a>, and
the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a work in progress and we
welcome feedback on the general principles and the
specific criteria. Please see the
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://oaspa.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing/">full
statement</a> on the OASPA blog (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://oaspa.org/blog/">http://oaspa.org/blog/</a>).</p>
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Claire Redhead<br>
Membership & Communications Manager<br>
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://oaspa.org/">http://oaspa.org/</a></p>
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