[open-science] Open Access Journals in Sociology charging publication fees

[Emanuil Tolev]

Hm, the journal info on fees being wrong is not very good. Journals are
supposed to keep their info up to date (at least by emailing the DOAJ
team). I'll forward this to the DOAJ catalogue team.

Greetings,
Emanuil
(DOAJ sysadmin)


On 8 July 2014 11:07, Ulrich Herb <u.herb at scinoptica.com> wrote:

> Dear lists,
>
> another by-product of my PhD project: Based on data from the Directory of
> Open Access Journals DOAJ I ​​examined to what extent open access journals
> in sociology charge their authors with publication fees. Surprisingly, the
> information of the DOAJ about the prevelance of these fees in journals from
> sociology were wrong to a large extent. A manual survey found that only
> three of the 109 selected journals used publication fees.
> http://www.scinoptica.com/pages/topics/open-access-journals-in-sociology-
> charging-publication-fees.php
>
> best
>
> Ulrich Herb
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