[GOAL] Beall's list: crowdsource scholarly critique?

2015-10-04 Thread Heather Morrison
Assuming that I am not alone in my concern about over-reliance on Beall's list, perhaps we can find a solution that targets this specific problem without more work than is really necessary? One thought for a remedy: could we find a way to crowdsource objective, dispassionate scholarly

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning - Assessing Publishers and Journals Scholarly Practices - Reloaded

2015-10-04 Thread Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)
Dear Eric, Though I agree simply accepting one man’s list is not sustainable, I doubt creating yet another list is the best way forward. There are already so many lists out there. Every new initiative seems to dilute and weaken efforts. Please let’s just try to tie the initiatives together

[GOAL] Re: Beall's list: crowdsource scholarly critique?

2015-10-04 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
Dear Wouldn't be a good practice of us to edit collaboratively and openly such a list either on wikipedia or on github, 2 different but convenient system for collaborative editing with full track records (aka the system logs who add waht and when) ? Today, in many circumstances, wikipedia

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning - Assessing Publishers and Journals Scholarly Practices - Reloaded

2015-10-04 Thread Dana Roth
Jeron makes some excellent points ... I would hope that we could stop lumping all subscription journals together and distinguish between non-profit society journals and commercial journals. Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning - Assessing Publishers and Journals Scholarly Practices - Reloaded

2015-10-04 Thread Éric Archambault
Hi Jeroen Good point. I don’t necessarily argue for a new list, improving/merging existing tools may indeed be the way to go. Eric From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) Sent: October-04-15 12:03 PM To: 'Global Open Access List