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OA-journals alive or??



Hi,

As to the current discussion whether the OA-journals are truly 
alive and well I can inform you, that the DOAJ-team is currently 
reviewing the DOAJ journals as to whether the journals still 
comply with the criteria, including whether they are active.

Since the frequency of publication varies enormously - just as it 
is the case with journals in general - it is not an easy task to 
determine if a journal has ceased publication. In the review as a 
default the publisher is contacted if a journal has not published 
any issues during the last 18 months, the same is the case if the 
DOAJ team observes major irregularities in current publication 
frequency compared to earlier publication frequency.

The review has as of today been performed for around 50% of the 
journals.

Due to the support from the community via the DOAJ Membership 
Program - http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership - we have 
recently added staff especially in order to speed up the 
reviewing process.

To date the DOAJ team has removed approx. 100 titles from DOAJ 
due to lack of compliance with the criteria:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=faq#selectioncriteria

Please note that removal can be caused by lack of compliance with 
any of the criteria.

Regards

Lars Bjornshauge
Director of Libraries
Lund University
www.lub.lu.se
www.doaj.org
jinfo.lub.lu.se


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Fran: Heather Morrison [mailto:heatherm@eln.bc.ca]
Skickat: den 10 juli 2007 22:11
Till: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
RE: potential positive spiral in transition to open access

Some recent comments on Liblicense appear to question whether
open access journals are truly alive and well.

The results of a very quick study of the Directory of Open Access
Journals (first 10 titles under R, letter selected at random)
strongly suggests that a great many OA journals are indeed alive
and well and actively publishing.

Of the 10 titles, 2 have published within the last month, 8 have 
published in 2007, and all but one has published no later than 
late 2006.  The oldest current issue is Sept.-Dec. 2005.

All titles appear to be publishing on a regular basis.

For anyone with the time and inclination for more in-depth
research, it would be worthwhile examing more open access titles
as well as comparing with subscription-based titles.

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, 
and does not reflect the opinion or policy of BC Electronic 
Library or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

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