Dramatic Growth of Open Access

This is one of the things we looked at in our 'volunteer
study' last year -
see Learned Publishing October 2005, 'When is a journal not
a journal?' -
www.learned-publishing.org

Sally


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Banks" <pbanksdiabetes.org>
To: <sally.morrisalpsp.org>; <liblicense-llists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access


> The vetting process doesn't appear very stringent. If
you look at
> the DOAJ journals, perhaps 25% publish sporadically.
Among the 13
> journals in Gastroenterology, for example, 4 have so
far
> published no new content in 2006. Others publish
content of very
> modest importance--for example, a paper like
"Listening to music
> decreases need for sedative medication during
colonoscopy: A
> randomized, controlled trial" in the Indian
Journal of
> Gastroenterology. This is not to say that there are no
healthy
> journals in the DOAJ mix, which clearly there are. It
is to point
> out again that the numbers of titles in the DOAJ by
itself
> doesn't signify much, one way or the other.
>
> Peter Banks
> Publisher
>