RE: OA-journals alive or??

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

Sally

I've quickly looked at Ulrich's: selecting 'refereed' and 'academic/scholarly'
gives us 25,700 titles.

Selecting 'refereed', 'academic/scholarly', and 'ceased' gives us 1,660
titles.

So, it would appear that 6.4% of journals listed by Ulrich's are not active.
These things are all relative, of course, but 7.5% for the DOAJ does not
appear particularly large compared with 6.4%.

Interestingly, Ulrich's underestimates the number of ceased open access
journals - of a total of 1,668 listed only 15 are 'ceased', giving 0.9%.
This does show that the 6.4% figure above is mainly subscription journals.

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris (Morris
Associates)
Sent: 12 July 2007 23:36
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: OA-journals alive or??

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

-----Original Message-----
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