[GOAL] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Backlash against my blog
[Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, ** ** I am the author of Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. ** ** I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. ** ** Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing, in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. ** ** One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. ** ** Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is herehttp://editormedicinalchemistry.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/jeffrey-beall-is-blackmailing-small-open-access-publishers-through-his-predatory-publishers-blog/. ** ** Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments section of my October *Nature* piece. The publisher has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. ** ** I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way. ** ** I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with. ** ** Thanks for your understanding. ** ** Jeffrey ** ** Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor Scholarly Initiatives Librarian Auraria Library University of Colorado Denver 1100 Lawrence St. Denver, Colo. 80204 USA (303) 556-5936 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu ** ** [image: Description: Description: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/oiuc/brand/downloads/branddownloads/branddocuments/Logos-E-mail%20Signatures/emailSig_2campus.png] ** ** ** ** image001.jpg___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Thank you Jeffrey Beall!
My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo! Further applause on IJPE: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote: [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is here. Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way. I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with. Thanks for your understanding. Jeffrey Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor Scholarly Initiatives Librarian Auraria Library University of Colorado Denver 1100 Lawrence St. Denver, Colo. 80204 USA (303) 556-5936 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu image001.jpg ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Thank you Jeffrey Beall!
Kudos to Jeffrey Beall, and regrets for the negative spam you have endured. Jeffrey, even though it may create some extra traffic for everyone on this listserv, may I suggest that you forward at least examples of the offending spam attacks, so that we are all well informed and can perhaps help or independently evaluate those messages. I realize that I am asking for something that everyone may not appreciate nor that may be acceptable to members of this list or to the moderator, but nothing serves to expose darkness like light. In any case, keep up the good work, despite the efforts to curtail it! Best wishes, Paul From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison [hgmor...@sfu.ca] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); scholc...@ala.org T.F. Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post Subject: [GOAL] Thank you Jeffrey Beall! My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo! Further applause on IJPE: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote: [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is here. Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way. I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with. Thanks for your understanding. Jeffrey Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor Scholarly Initiatives Librarian Auraria Library University of Colorado Denver 1100 Lawrence St. Denver, Colo. 80204 USA (303) 556-5936 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu image001.jpg ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Fwd: Dark Side of Openness: Identity Theft and Fraudulent Postings By Predatory OA Publishers
The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these increasingly criminal practices by predatory publishers bent on making a fast buck by abusing the research community's legitimate desire for open access (OA) (as well as exploiting some researchers' temptation to get accepted for publication fast, no matter what the cost or quality). I cannot omit mentioning that this is yet another symptom of gold fever, in which researchers mistakenly assume that OA only means publishing their articles in a gold OA journal (often for a price) and forget about green OA self-archiving of articles published in subscription journals, and at no additional cost. Green OA retains the quality and track-record of established journals, and needs to come first. If and when universally mandated green OA makes subscriptions unsustainable, that's the time to for journals to make the transition to gold OA, maintaining their respective authorships, readerships, refereeships, and titles, hence their quality and track-record. The price of pre-emptive gold fever is not just the extra gold OA fees, over and above what is still being paid for subscriptions that remain uncancelable until there is universal green OA as an alternative, but, as we see, the growth of these bottom-feeding junk-journals, purveying fool's gold. Jeffrey Beall is performing an invaluable service: Let us all help him by naming and shaming the false-name-shamers so they don't keep treating the research community like a community of suckers waiting (and asking) to be bilked. Stevan Harnad -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Suber peter.su...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM Subject: [sparc-oaforum] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Backlash against my blog To: SOAF post sparc-oafo...@arl.org, BOAI Forum post boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk, GOAL post goal@eprints.org [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, ** ** I am the author of Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. ** ** I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. ** ** Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing, in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. ** ** One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. ** ** Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is herehttp://editormedicinalchemistry.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/jeffrey-beall-is-blackmailing-small-open-access-publishers-through-his-predatory-publishers-blog/. ** ** Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments section of my October *Nature* piece. The publisher has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. ** ** I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way. ** ** I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with. ** ** Thanks for your understanding. ** ** Jeffrey ** ** Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor Scholarly Initiatives Librarian Auraria Library University of Colorado Denver 1100 Lawrence St. Denver, Colo. 80204 USA (303) 556-5936 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu ** ** [image: Description: Description: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/oiuc/brand/downloads/branddownloads/branddocuments/Logos-E-mail%20Signatures/emailSig_2campus.png] ** ** ** ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SPARC OA Forum group. To post to this group, send email to sparc-oafo...@arl.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sparc-oaforum+unsubscr...@arl.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum image001.jpg___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Future plans for the DOAJ
The purpose of this communication is to inform about recent changes and future plans for the development of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). As communicated here (www.is4oa.org/News.html) Lund University has facilitated a handover of the responsibility for operating and developing DOAJ to Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA). IS4OA has been founded by Dr. Alma Swan (convener of EOS , co-founder and co-owner of Key Perspectives Ltd and Director SPARC Europe ) and Dr. Caroline Sutton (founder Co-Action Publishing and president of OASPA ). Below we will briefly outline the current plans for improvement and development of the DOAJ. *Governance and engaging with the community* First, we want to engage the community in the governance and in the development and operations of the DOAJ. Our company, IS4OA, is set up as a not-for-profit charitable company limited by guarantee under UK law. Governance of the DOAJ will be through an Advisory Board comprised of key individuals from the open access community. The Advisory Board will provide advice and feedback on the development of the DOAJ. We will as well invite the broader community to contribute input on priorities and directions. Our intention is to develop the DOAJ into a significantly improved service by introducing more functionality and extending the coverage of journals around the world. Included in this will be the task of working more closely with publishers to improve the quality of the information we can deliver about the journals listed. The new organisation has engaged Lars Bjørnshauge to manage DOAJ. Lars founded the DOAJ during his service as Director of Libraries at Lund University. Agreements regarding hosting, technical operation and development as well as staff recruitment are in progress. *Reengineering the editorial work by crowd sourcing* We intend to change the way the editorial process operates. So far, editorial work (reviewing and approving journals) has been centralised; that is, all editorial tasks have been performed by staff located and employed at Lund University. In recent years, a de-centralised model for DOAJ has also been introduced involving agreements with regional/national collaborators (consortia, etc.) where one or more staff carry out the initial reviewing of journals from that country or in that language. This arrangement is already in operation for journals published in France, Turkey and Greece. This model will be extended to further countries and regions. By means of the concept of the “DOAJ associate librarian” the editorial work (inclusion and filtering) and translation of the DOAJ-website into additional languages will essentially be based on a community model (crowd sourced). In this way, the workload at the central hub will decrease and will develop more in the direction of management of the community. *Improved criteria for inclusion in the DOAJ* In communication with the community we will develop improved criteria for inclusion in the DOAJ, for instance by aligning criteria with OASPA’s code of conduct (http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/) and the Open Access Spectrum (http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/howopenisit_open-review.pdf). And we will indeed address the issue of publishers not living up to reasonable standards both in terms of content and of business behavior. *Improvement and development plan* We have followed debates closely and will carry out further community and user consultations to determine what enhancements and improvements should be made to the DOAJ so that it better serves the needs of the whole community (funders, sponsors, supporters, publishers, authors and other users). Already the information we have gathered has been used to outline an improvement plan. We will engage more systematically with the community as we move forward in order to solicit input to future improvements. Improvements will be in the following areas: • Improvements in the quality of the records for each journal entry (by working with and assisting publishers) • Metadata improvements (journal level and article level) • Improvements in the search interface, harvesting functionality and system • Robust long term archiving solution • Altmetrics The takeover will take place gradually during January 2013. We hope you will welcome this new development and will continue to support DOAJ in 2013 and beyond. We look forward to working with you all in delivering a service committed to continual improvement over the years to come. You can follow the developments on www.doaj.org www.is4oa.org and on twitter: @DOAJplus Kind regards Lars Bjørnshauge Managing Director Alma SwanCaroline Sutton DirectorDirector For further information contact Lars Bjørnshauge l...@arl.org - +4553510603 -- Lars Bjørnshauge SPARC’s Director of European Library Relations - www.sparceurope.org mobile phone: +45 53 51 06 03 Skype: lbj-lub0603 - twitter: elbjoern0603 e-mail:
[GOAL] Re: Thank you Jeffrey Beall!
Paul, Here are a few examples: * http://publishopenaccess.blogspot.com/ * http://antiviralsantiretrovirals.edublogs.org/2012/12/18/omics-blog/ * http://editorjccr.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/open-access-publishing-usd-5000-is-enough-to-remove-your-publishers-name-from-bealls-list/ Thank you for your kind words. Jeffrey Beall -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Uhlir, Paul Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:49 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); scholc...@ala.org T.F. Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post Subject: [GOAL] Re: Thank you Jeffrey Beall! Kudos to Jeffrey Beall, and regrets for the negative spam you have endured. Jeffrey, even though it may create some extra traffic for everyone on this listserv, may I suggest that you forward at least examples of the offending spam attacks, so that we are all well informed and can perhaps help or independently evaluate those messages. I realize that I am asking for something that everyone may not appreciate nor that may be acceptable to members of this list or to the moderator, but nothing serves to expose darkness like light. In any case, keep up the good work, despite the efforts to curtail it! Best wishes, Paul From: goal-boun...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison [hgmor...@sfu.ca] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); scholc...@ala.orgmailto:scholc...@ala.org T.F. Cc: SOAF post; BOAI Forum post Subject: [GOAL] Thank you Jeffrey Beall! My reaction: thank you, Jeffrey Beall! - both for the important service of tracking those predatory open access publishers, and for exposing this attempt to discredit you. Bravo! Further applause on IJPE: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-huge-thank-you-to-jeffrey-beall.html best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 18-Dec-12, at 9:48 AM, Peter Suber wrote: [Forwarding from Jeffrey Beall, via the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.] Colleagues, I am the author of Scholarly Open Access, a blog that includes lists of questionable scholarly publishers and questionable independent journals. I'm writing to let people that I've been the victim of an ongoing, organized attempt to discredit me and my blog. Specifically, I've been a victim of email spoofing, in which someone is sending emails that appear to be from me but really are not. One of the spoofed emails is an offer to reevaluate a publisher's presence on my list for five thousand dollars. These emails try to make it look like I am extorting money from publishers. Also, someone is going around setting up new blogs that reprint the spoofed email or that include contrived quotes from scholars. An example is here. Additionally, someone is leaving negative comments about me and my work on various OA-related blogs and websites, writing in the names of people prominent in the OA movement. One place this occurred was in the comments section of my October Nature piece. The publisher has removed these spurious statements and closed further comments. I'm going to continue my work identifying questionable and predatory publishers as best I can. Because many of the publishers on my list are true criminals, it's no surprise that they would respond in a criminal way. I realize my blog is not perfect; I've made mistakes and have tried to learn from them. Many of you have given me valuable advice, and I have tried to implement the good advice as best I could. I have not engaged in any of the activities that they are trying to frame me with. Thanks for your understanding. Jeffrey Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor Scholarly Initiatives Librarian Auraria Library University of Colorado Denver 1100 Lawrence St. Denver, Colo. 80204 USA (303) 556-5936 jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edumailto:jeffrey.be...@ucdenver.edu image001.jpg ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.orgmailto:GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.orgmailto:GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.orgmailto:GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Dark Side of Openness: Identity Theft and Fraudulent Postings By Predatory OA Publishers
Stevan Harnad writes The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these increasingly criminal practices by predatory publishers I wonder if there is a criterion for when a publisher is predatory. bent on making a fast buck by abusing the research community's legitimate desire for open access (OA) (as well as exploiting some researchers' temptation to get accepted for publication fast, no matter what the cost or quality). If the aim open access then we should first expose the toll-gated publishers who have for many years extraordinary profits from material they obtained for free and that was reviewed for them for free. Surely the amounts wasted on open access publishing dwarf the sum spent on library subscriptions to buy access to articles that nobody ever seems to cite, so probably nobody ever reads. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Further Fallout From Finch Folly
On 2012-12-18, at 8:26 PM, Roddy Macleod macleod.ro...@gmail.com wrote: *Editors with publishing and library experience, available to do the background work, and backed up with scholarly reviewers - sounds OK to me. * Please support us in our efforts. We need submissions and we need volunteers to review them in their areas of expertise. Both can be done by registering with Social Sciences Directory as a User. http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/article/view/32/69 (1) Is this what was meant by peer review at Heriot-Watt University? (2) Is this how Heriot-Watt University would have assessed whether there is a niche or need for a new peer-reviewed journal? (3) Is this how Heriot-Watt University would have assessed a new journal's quality in deciding whether to subscribe to it? (4) Would Heriot-Watt University consider it OK for journals to be selected (by authors, subscribers, or members) on the basis of their economic model rather than their quality? No question that there are and always were bottom-rung journals among subscription journals too: Difference was that they did not have the extra allure of OA and Gold Fever; they were not subscribed to by institutions if there was no empty subject niche they were filling, nor before they had established their track-records for quality. And journals could not cover their start-up costs by tempting authors to publish with them by paying for it, again seasoned with the extra allure of OA and Gold Fever, and perhaps of quick and easy acceptance for publication. (Needy start-up subscription journals lowering quality standards to fill the need for submissions would simply reduce their chances of getting subscriptions -- but this does not necessarily lower the chances of tempting needy authors to pay-to-publish in OA start-up journals -- and especially before the journal's quality record is established, when all a fool's gold start-up needs for legitimacy is to wrap itself in the mantle of OA and righteous indignation against the tyranny of the impact factor unfairly favouring established journals…) As I have said many times, institutions are free to part themselves from their spare money in any way they like. But if they claim they're doing it for the sake of OA, they had better mandate Green OA (effectively) first -- otherwise (as long as they are double-paying, over and above their uncancelable subscriptions) they are in the iron pyrite market. (And encouraging this, blindly, is one of the perverse effects of Finch Folly.) Stevan Harnad On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:26 PM, LIBLICENSE liblice...@gmail.com wrote: From: Roddy Macleod macleod.ro...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:56:25 + This discussion seems well over the top. Editors with publishing and library experience, available to do the background work, and backed up with scholarly reviewers - sounds OK to me. The SSD website looks well organised (and a lot better and easier to use than some I've seen). And, for goodness sakes - it's a startup! Something more relevant to warn against? How about all the 'predatory journals' http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ and the 'Criminal Impersonation' of faked postings http://lisnews.org/listed_predatory_publishers_fight_back_with_criminal_impersonation Or the rubbish stuff from some established journal publishers: http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/rubbish-stuff-from-publishers-6/ http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/journal-publishers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-i-name-names/ Roddy MacLeod On 18 December 2012 00:08, LIBLICENSE liblice...@gmail.com wrote: From: Sandy Thatcher sandy.thatc...@alumni.princeton.edu Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:49:22 -0600 Is there a list of these 100 registered reviewers publicly posted anywhere? And why are reviewers registered anyway? Normally, a journal goes to find the best reviewer anywhere, not just limit the selection to a predetermined list. For a journal that claims to cover all of the social sciences, 100 would seem to be a severely inadequate number to draw upon. Sandy Thatcher From: Dan Scott dan.sc...@socialsciencesdirectory.com Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:11:53 + Stevan: A correction: as the press release and our editorial policy make clear, we carry out a full peer review. We also have over 100 registered referees. Dan Scott ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal