DOAJ, the leading directory service for OA journals, introduces a new application process for OA journals aiming at being listed there (http://doaj.org/application/new) because they are concerned about OA quality.
That's what also comes from DOAJ, and we can help with it:
"Some journal web sites state that the journal is in DOAJ when it is not. Often, the home page carries the DOAJ logo along with logos from other indexing services. Even though we write to these journals, there is no guarantee that they will remove our logo.
I advise the research community to ALWAYS check at www.doaj.org that a journal is indexed with us, even if its web site carries the DOAJ logo or says that it is indexed in DOAJ. You can never be too careful and it only takes as long to check if a journal is in DOAJ as it takes to type the journal name into the search box and press Return.
If you spot a journal that is carrying the DOAJ logo but is not indexed in DOAJ, I would love to hear from you!"
Despite the pros of OA there are many cons as well,
a large number of disqualified people have established new OA journals, ceasing the pros of OA, those journal ask for a payment to cover online process and websites administrations, without paying much attention to the quality of published papers, some of those journals alow a week or so to give the final decision, which is acceptance most of the time, this is only to get the money, those journals are termed "predatory Journals" by Jeffrey Beall
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230841682_Predatory_publishers_are_corrupting_open_access
this wonderful researcher has listed hundreds of those journals and publishers warning researchers from publishing there. those black list can be found at: http://scholarlyoa.com/
a new publisher has just launched 96 new "predatory journal" more on this at http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/09/18/another-oa-publisher-launches-with-96-new-journals/#comments
I am not against OA, on the contrary I like the idea, and I published there too, the most important is to make sure that you choose the right journal and make sure it is not "predatory journal".
the problem is that we sometimes look at the results, look at the cancer and we forget the causes. I think the real good journals are responsible for what is going on, and let researchers seek for such rotten journals, when I wait 2.5 years to get one of my papers published, I may seek for those "predatory journals", when I wait 10 months to get rejected with no obvious reason I seek for those cannibals.
Article Predatory Publishers Are Corrupting Open Access
Articles published in open access journals are peer reviewed and free for everyone to view and download.
Benefits of Open Access Research can be summarized as follows:
- (Accelerated discovery. With open access, researchers can read and build on the findings of others without restriction.
- Public enrichment. Much scientific and medical research is paid for with public funds. Open Access allows taxpayers to see the results of their investment.
- Improved education. Open Access means that teachers and their students have access to the latest research findings throughout the world).
For more information on the subject you may look in the following link:
http://www.plos.org/open-access/
Although Michael's post is not directly asking for the qualities of OA, I sincerely believe that OA is of immense benefit. The problem is that many fraudulent publishers have hijacked OA just for profit making. They do not publish quality work and will not index their works with any good indexing company. In fact, they do not peer-review papers in the first place. Researchers should verify any publisher who claims to be operating OA. A very good way to help other scholars is to reveal the identity of the fake ones in spaces such as Researchgate. To be sure and avoid predatory OA journals Jeffery Beall's will help.http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Dear Michael,
In addition to what has already been said in this intriguing on-going dialogue, I would like to say that the value of any research resides in the research itself (not in the journal in spite of the quality it promises)!
Despite the pros of OA there are many cons as well,
a large number of disqualified people have established new OA journals, ceasing the pros of OA, those journal ask for a payment to cover online process and websites administrations, without paying much attention to the quality of published papers, some of those journals alow a week or so to give the final decision, which is acceptance most of the time, this is only to get the money, those journals are termed "predatory Journals" by Jeffrey Beall
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230841682_Predatory_publishers_are_corrupting_open_access
this wonderful researcher has listed hundreds of those journals and publishers warning researchers from publishing there. those black list can be found at: http://scholarlyoa.com/
a new publisher has just launched 96 new "predatory journal" more on this at http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/09/18/another-oa-publisher-launches-with-96-new-journals/#comments
I am not against OA, on the contrary I like the idea, and I published there too, the most important is to make sure that you choose the right journal and make sure it is not "predatory journal".
the problem is that we sometimes look at the results, look at the cancer and we forget the causes. I think the real good journals are responsible for what is going on, and let researchers seek for such rotten journals, when I wait 2.5 years to get one of my papers published, I may seek for those "predatory journals", when I wait 10 months to get rejected with no obvious reason I seek for those cannibals.
Article Predatory Publishers Are Corrupting Open Access
The quality of the research is the significance of it to the field despite the Journal interest. However, open access of journal does not mean bad or good research publication.
They have a lot of missing links.. In the advertisement released on Jan 2014, on DOAJ Associate Editor....
When quality cannot cover a wide spectrum and that which cannot be measured quantitatively is surely not in a right way...
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0fPCpIPjZlmWXliVC1nXzl5aFE/edit
I voted Ahmad's answer up because he raised an important idea: one of the reasons for falling for predatory OA publishers. He said, "I think the real good journals are responsible for what is going on, and let researchers seek for such rotten journals, when I wait 2.5 years to get one of my papers published, I may seek for those "predatory journals", when I wait 10 months to get rejected with no obvious reason I seek for those cannibals."
I'm sure, Ahmad, when you say "I" you do not mean yourself but people of the academia. The 'real good journals' mentioned above are the so-called high-quality journals that hide content behind paywalls. They make high profits with our results by using our already publicly paid work (research funding) and making our institutions pay for it again (subscription and download fees).
We obviously see two kinds of predatory publishers here: the OA predator that soak the author (one single fee) and the high-quality predator that soak the public (as many fees as libraries or library networks need to subscribe).
I regularly stay in contact with Jeffrey Beall by sending him information on suspicious OA publishers. His work is an excellent effort to raise the quality of OA publications.
I was wondering why we do not establish a corresponding list of high quality OA publications. Criteria for high quality could be
- transparent review process
- reasonable time to publication
- free for readers
- no or reasonable fees for authors
- ...
Any other ideas are welcome.
Of course, it is helpful for the scholars. No one can have account for every paid journals. I think all SCI and SCI-E indexed journals should be open access which can help to improve quality.
Regarding the cons, every thing has pros and cons. We should try to start awareness regarding good quality journals.
I figure out the solution at: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_revolutionary_steps_taken_by_all_researches_against_the_current_publication_system#5425c528d5a3f2bc168b45d1
I'm happy to join this company discussing such an interestng problem. Now, I've read what my prdecessors have said. Soon I'll add my own point of view. Best regards. Janina
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