RE: Press Release: Open Access journals proven to compete on

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Dear Sally, 

It is so well known, that ISI gives instructions for removing them from
the impact factor. 

Even before that, I, like my colleagues, when we evaluating borderline
titles, look at the non-review content only, and we remind faculty of
this when we sent the issues for  them to examine. I've occasionally
gone to Science Citation Reports to examine, article by article, if the
non-review articles had any citations. You can do it even without the
contents page, if you simply rule out the beginning article in each
issue.  Salting the mine will deceive only the novices.  

David
Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor, 
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University, Brookville, NY 
dgoodman@liu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Morris (ALPSP) [mailto:chief-exec@alpsp.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:29 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Press Release: Open Access journals proven to compete on 
quality

It is well known that review articles (the non-OA stuff, in this case) 
have a significant effect in boosting citation figures.  Indeed, 
publishers are not above introducing them to journals with at least 
half an eye on this effect - I've done it myself (the readers liked 
them too, mind!).

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org
ALPSP Website  http://www.alpsp.org