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<div>Dear Wouter,</div>
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<div>There is a lot to say in support of more tranparency. For any system to succeed it will need wide adoption. So perhaps Elsevier and Thomson Reuters could join forces here and decide on a commonly used system to be comprehensively available in Scopus as
well as WoS and preferably on a open platform (Scimago? DOAJ?) as well. </div>
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<div>A problem will be the nested nature of this star rating. What about e.g. qualifying for 5 but not for 4 stars when a jounal has open but anonymous review reports? And there are other examples where this nesting will prove to be problematic. Why not just
publish the transparency data without turining them into a ranking or rating system? Of course the data should be available for downloading, filtering, sorting etc.<br>
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<div>PS Personally I would also applaud Scopus if it used paper/chapter submittance dates instead of or along with publication years. Publication years are often not very useful for dating content.</div>
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Op 23 dec. 2013 om 22:12 heeft "Gerritsma, Wouter" <<a href="mailto:wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl">wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl</a>> het volgende geschreven:<br>
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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"">
<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [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> <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<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/‎"><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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