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

Tue Feb 10 15:51:49 UTC 2015

Thank you very much Marc for further explanation, and, of course you are
right and it is my mistake, 63% journals do not charge APC´s
sorry for this misinformation

2015-02-10 11:47 GMT-03:00 Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca>:

>      Dominique Babini wrote:
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> > DOAJ accepts journals which comply with its
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> > 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
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> Marc Couture
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