A Clean House at the Directory of Open Access Journals – ACRL TechConnect

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-09-30

Summary:

"The work that DOAJ is doing to improve transparency and the screening process is very important for open access advocates, who will soon have a tool that they can trust to provide much more complete information for scholars and librarians. For too long we have been forced to use the concept of a list of “questionable” or even “predatory” journals. A directory of journals with robust standards and easy to understand interface will be a fresh start for the rhetoric of open access journals...."

Link:

https://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/post/a-clean-house-at-the-directory-of-open-access-journals/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.doaj oa.predatory oa.quality oa.credibility oa.best_practices

Date tagged:

09/30/2018, 11:03

Date published:

09/30/2018, 07:03