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

[Sandy Thatcher <sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu>]

But we all know (without mentioning names) that there are some 
companies out there taking advantage of the low barriers to entry 
in OA journal publishing to operate scam operations that are set 
up to take from unwary authors. I wonder how many of these 
journals are counted in the DOAJ total? Does DOAJ attempt to 
verify whether a journal really is a legitimate operation?

Sandy Thatcher


At 6:22 PM -0500 12/17/10, David Prosser wrote:

> >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