[Open-access] How do you evaluate Open Access Journals?

[Couture Marc]

Dominique Babini wrote:

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> DOAJ accepts journals which comply with its
> Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing<http://doaj.org/bestpractice>
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This applies to the couple of hundred journals included after March 2014, when a new application form based upon these principles was implemented. DOAJ has just started a process of reapplication for the 10 000-odd previously included journals, which will be completed “late 2015” (http://doajournals.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/proactive-not-reactive ). The former application process was much less stringent, so that some journals on Beall’s list were included in DOAJ.

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> APC´s (article processing charges) are charged by 63% of journals in DOAJ”
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The figure seems rather to be the other way around: it’s 27%, as can be calculated from the numbers displayed in DOAJ search page, Publication charges tab (left menu) http://doaj.org/search

Marc Couture


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