RE: Open Access means sloppy publications?

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

I am merely reporting what the 248 respondents told us.  While small, this
is a statistically significant proportion (20%) of all contactable DOAJ
journals then on the list.  Certainly some of these were from Latin
America

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email  sally.morris@alpsp.org

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Szczepanski.
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Sent: 03 May 2005 01:31
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Subject: Re: Open Access means sloppy publications?

First a question to Sally Morris:

Would you say that the more than 750 free scientific e-journals from 16
Iberoamerican countries in Latindex are sloppy too?

Secondly I want to ask:

Does anyone have a comment on these figuers showing sientific medical
Latin American journals reprsentation in some well known databases. Are we
talking about sloppy publications?

Medline 59
EMBASE 85
ISI 27
LILACS 659
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Jan Szczepanski
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E-mail: Jan.Szczepanski@ub.gu.se
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At 02:55 2005-05-02, you wrote:
>The findings so far of our study comparing DOAJ with other journals does
>suggest that many more of them describe as 'peer review' a process that is
>totally or partially in-house;  I would have thought that correct
>'classical' peer review was normally conducted by external 'peers', with
>the Editor-in-Chief having a final decision in case of differences of
>opinion.  See http://www.alpsp.org/openacc.htm#pres
>
>Sally
>
>Sally Morris, Chief Executive
>Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
>E-mail:  sally.morris@alpsp.org
>ALPSP Website  http://www.alpsp.org