RE: OA-journals alive or??

["Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\)" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

So, about 7.5% are inactive (or otherwise ineligible)

It seems to me that's quite high

Sally Morris
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

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From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Lars Bjornshauge
Sent: 12 July 2007 00:42
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: 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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