Members of the OSI list might be interested in this initiative from CWTS Leiden and the Quality Open Access Market (QOAM).
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Lizzie
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Thanks Lizzie! Yes---nice approach. The OSI group put something like this on their wish list a few years ago---essentially a Yelp site for publishing where community reviews and rankings can help identify the bad actors. Like this Leiden effort, we’re just hoping for a little help from people who believe in the need and are willing to commit the startup funds (which isn’t a whole lot, especially considering that this site should be profitable after a few years).
Cheers,
Glenn
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We also often assign roles to libraries that I find many African universities libraries incapable of playing. Many libraries just give you what you want and users are also structured that way.
Yes, these are really important points, Williams. The varying roles of libraries in different parts of the world probably hasn’t been factored into this model. I’m in touch with the authors about this work so I’ll forward your point on, if I may.
On your point about DOIs, Glenn, I think this isn’t the best marker of “good”, simply due to the cost of providing DOIs. I’m currently finalising our UK Research Excellence Framework submission and am getting up-close-and-personal with a wide disciplinary range of outputs, and it’s surprised me how many don’t have DOIs. When I queried this on Twitter it transpired that many smaller, independent publishers found the effort and cost prohibitive.
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Lizzie
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Subject: RE: Bona Fide Journals – Creating a predatory-free academic publishing environment
Excellent point Williams. I guess a system like this would eventually end up making the big publishers look glamorous and the small ones look, well, small. But I think the intent is/was to help identify the regional, specialty, and even “off the radar” publishers that are actually doing a good job via the reviews they receive. By “good,” I’m not talking here about bells and whistles, but doing a competent job of review, editing and archiving, putting out regular issues, making sure articles have DOIs, making sure the journal is indexed somewhere, etc. It’s important here to distinguish between these journals and the predatory ones---the ones that take money but don’t publish anything, or lie about their editorial boards or impact factors in order to lure in authors, for example. Here’s a link to Rick’s issue brief on this to make sure we’re all defining “predatory” (or “deceptive”) in the same way: Issue Brief 3: Deceptive Publishing | Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings (gmu.edu).
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Glenn
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We also often assign roles to libraries that I find many African universities libraries incapable of playing. Many libraries just give you what you want and users are also structured that way.
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Heavy sigh…alas, you’re right Lizzie. I thought DOIs were like bit.ly links (why aren’t they anyway?)--- Learning a lot this week…. Thanks too for the extra reading, Pippa and Williams.
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