Miguel, That could be an interesting discussion. Is PLOS an US-American jornal? Are Hindawi journals Egyptian and Copernicus journals German? What defines the nationality of the journal? Seat of its publisher's office? Affiliation of the editorial board? Affliation of its papers' authors? And what would one do with that information? I think that in the context of Open Access journals nationality based on location of the publishers office or editor's residence is all too often misused to grossly dismiss journals as low quality because they are Nigerian, Indian or Bulgarian.
Jeroen -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of MIGUEL ERNESTO NAVAS FERNANDEZ Sent: woensdag 26 maart 2014 10:28 To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: GOAL Digest, Vol 28, Issue 16 Hello, I do think that country of publication is important, it could be related to academic research. Have you tried contacting DOAJ? They use to be quite dilligent. Miguel Navas-Fernández http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5191-238X https://twitter.com/miguelnavasf PhD Researcher Universitat de Barcelona http://www.accesoabierto.net http://bd.ub.edu/grups/ccd/ ________________________________________ De: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] en nom de goal-requ...@eprints.org [goal-requ...@eprints.org] Enviat el: dimarts, 25 / març / 2014 15:08 Per a: goal@eprints.org Tema: GOAL Digest, Vol 28, Issue 16 Send GOAL mailing list submissions to goal@eprints.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to goal-requ...@eprints.org You can reach the person managing the list at goal-ow...@eprints.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of GOAL digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian' (Bosman, J.M.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:44:22 +0000 From: "Bosman, J.M." <j.bos...@uu.nl> Subject: [GOAL] Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian' To: "'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)'" <goal@eprints.org> Message-ID: <53ef71f4c5e22941a70899881a35faeb63a91...@ictsc-w-s202.soliscom.uu.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Denny, To me nationality of a journal is unimportant, not to say a useless concept (at least in assessing or using an online journal) . Ivyspring is a company registered in Australia and apparently has some sort of office in 1 market Street Sydney. Some of its OA journals are included in JCR and Scopus, as well as PMC. The editorial boards of its journals are predominantly occupied by US affiliated researchers. Jeroen -------------------------EN------------------------ Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University Library<http://www.uu.nl/library> email: j.bos...@uu.nl<mailto:j.bos...@uu.nl> telephone: +31.30.2536613 mail: Postbus 80124, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands visiting address: room 2.50, Heidelberglaan 3. 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Of the list of 115 journals on the DOAJ, 12 charge an APC. However on investigation seven of these 12 do not appear to be Australian journals at all. There is no definitive list of Australian OA journals - the AOASG page http://aoasg.org.au/open-access-in-action/australian-oa-journals/ lists 150 (compared to the smaller DOAJ list) and before I investigated this it did not include the five genuinely OA Australian journals that charge an APC. My questions are: * Does anyone know why these journals would be appearing on DOAJ as 'Australian'? * Five of them are published by Ivyspring International Publishers - does anyone know anything about this publisher? Thanks Danny Journal Publisher APC Notes Journal of Genomics<http://www.jgenomics.com/> Ivyspring International Publisher No publication charge during the current promotional period of this journal Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board. Theranostics<http://www.thno.org/> Ivyspring International Publisher $100AUD Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board International Journal of Electronics, Engineering and Computer Systems<http://www.irphouse.com/elect/ijece.htm> International Research Publication House $150USD Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board Asian Journal of Crop Science<http://scialert.net/current.php?issn=1994-7879> Asian Network for Scientific Information $370AUD There is no direct website for the journal and it is difficult to determine the countries the Editorial Board come from Journal of Cancer<http://www.jcancer.org/> Ivyspring International Publisher $1100AUD Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Biological Sciences<http://www.ijbs.com/> Ivyspring International Publisher $1450AUD Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Medical Sciences<http://www.medsci.org/> Ivyspring International Publisher $1450AUD Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board. Dr Danny Kingsley ------------------------------------------ Executive Officer Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) Menzies Library, Building 2 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia E: danny.kings...@anu.edu.au<mailto:danny.kings...@anu.edu.au> P: +612 6125 6839 W: http://aoasg.org.au T: @openaccess_oz Cricos Provider - 00120C NOTE: I work three days a week: Mondays (on campus), Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think about open access 24/7. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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