RE: Does Dramatic Growth of DOAJ Signal Success or Market Dysfunction?

[T Scott Plutchak <tscott@uab.edu>]

Please define "success".

T. Scott Plutchak

Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
tscott@uab.edu


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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of David Prosser
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Subject: Re: Does Dramatic Growth of DOAJ Signal Success or Market Dysfunction?

>From Phil's post:

'But does this type of growth really indicate economic success in
open access publishing?  Or does growth simply point to a system
gone awry, like the growth in unemployment or the proliferation
of spam?'

There is just about no metric of success for OA that Phil can't
spin into bad news.  Of course he doesn't actually say that OA
journals are like spam - just leaves the words floating there.

David

On 17 Dec 2010, at 03:47, Philip Davis wrote:

> Two new studies that analyze the distribution of journals in the
> DOAJ come to opposite conclusions. see:
>
> For Open Access Journals, Size Does Matter:
>
> http://goo.gl/fb/Qpkwd
>
> --Phil Davis