Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access

["Peter Banks" <pbanks@diabetes.org>]

The vetting process doesn't appear very stringent. If you look at 
the DOAJ journals, perhaps 25% publish sporadically. Among the 13 
journals in Gastroenterology, for example, 4 have so far 
published no new content in 2006. Others publish content of very 
modest importance--for example, a paper like "Listening to music 
decreases need for sedative medication during colonoscopy: A 
randomized, controlled trial" in the Indian Journal of 
Gastroenterology. This is not to say that there are no healthy 
journals in the DOAJ mix, which clearly there are. It is to point 
out again that the numbers of titles in the DOAJ by itself 
doesn't signify much, one way or the other.

Peter Banks
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>>> sally.morris@alpsp.org 05/09/06 7:13 PM >>>
Interesting to hear that all journals are vetted before adding to
DOAJ. This manifestly was not the case when we ran our volunteer
survey last year - has the policy changed?  If so, I'm glad to
hear it

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org