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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Claire and other members of OASPA, COPE, DOAJ & WAME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Paper is patient. Journal will explain that they do peer review, double blind, whatever you wish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">But I think you should award journals for their degree in transparency for the peer review process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wowter.net/2013/12/24/towards-five-stars-transparent-pre-publication-peer-review/">http://wowter.net/2013/12/24/towards-five-stars-transparent-pre-publication-peer-review/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours sincerely<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wouter Gerritsma<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Claire Redhead<br>
<b>Sent:</b> donderdag 19 december 2013 16:41<br>
<b>To:</b> goal@eprints.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] 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"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://publicationethics.org/ý"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Committee on Publication Ethics</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">,
the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.doaj.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Directory of Open Access Journals</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">,
the <span style="color:#2A2A2A"><a href="http://oaspa.org/">Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association</a>,</span> and the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.wame.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">World Association of Medical Editors</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Claire Redhead<br>
Membership & Communications Manager<br>
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://oaspa.org/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://oaspa.org/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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