Proud members of OASPA and DOAJ – ScienceOpen Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-10

Summary:

"Just a quick post to say that we are delighted to have been accepted as members of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) and the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). You can see our listings here and here. Both of these organizations have a rigorous application process and that’s all for the good given the proliferation of OA publishers. They offer important “white list” services to would be authors, allowing them to check the credentials and approach of publishers that may be unfamiliar to them. It makes sense to have these checks and balances in place and is preferable to alternatives such as naming and shaming which sometimes catches the good and the bad guys in the same net. As anyone who has ever worked in start-up land will tell you, getting traction and recognition in the early days is quite the uphill battle (even for PLOS and PLOS ONE back in the day where I used to work). We are thrilled to have crossed this milestone!"

Link:

http://blog.scienceopen.com/2015/02/proud-members-of-oaspa-and-doaj/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.scienceopen oa.publishers oa.doaj oa.oaspa oa.announcements

Date tagged:

02/10/2015, 09:09

Date published:

02/10/2015, 04:09