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-llists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu] On Behalf
Of Lars Bjornshauge
Sent: 12 July 2007 00:42
To: liblicense-llists.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.d
oaj.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&a
mp;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:heathermeln.bc.ca]
Skickat: den 10 juli 2007 22:11
Till: liblicense-llists.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://poeticecon
omics.blogspot.com
[SNIP]
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