Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

This is one of the things we looked at in our 'volunteer study' last year -
see Learned Publishing October 2005, 'When is a journal not a journal?' -
www.learned-publishing.org

Sally


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Banks" <pbanks@diabetes.org>
To: <sally.morris@alpsp.org>; <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access


> 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
> Publisher
>