On 26 March, Mr. Jeffrey Beall, posted to this list a clear attempt to disqualify the Brazilian scientific journals open access. Mr. Beall has five (not six, and I can not say) links what he calls the academic open access journals in Brazil. The links in question are the journalist Mauricio Tuffani, published in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. All the materials analyze critically the evaluation system of Higher Education Personnel Training Coordination (Capes) -the Ministry of Education of Brazil-to journals that are included in its Brazilian Qualis Periodicals database. It also criticizes the use of this database for evaluation of Brazilian science in graduate programs.
Therefore, none of these materials provides elements for analyzing the Brazilian scientific journals open access. Although these papers were dealing with scientific journals open access, cause me also strange that an experienced librarian as Mr. Beall dare define the situation of a country building on 5/6 articles from the same source, that besides all has no scientific basis, which is the case of the daily newspapers and in addition to be written by a professional who is not a researcher. I can accept that there are still people who stand against the open access movement, but as a member of one of the main institutions that promote open access in Brazil - Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (Ibict) - I can not accept that no one attempt tarnish the golden road in the country. We know it is necessary to seek the increase in the standard of quality in our magazines, but I think this is a quest that must be constant not only in Brazil but also in all countries of the world. It seemed so strange the post from Mr. Beall, and its demonstration of lack of understanding of the content of the materials, which come to think that the translation that was made to the English was not correct. Anyone who is interested in open access data in Brazil'll be happy to help her get them Bianca Amaro Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (Ibict) _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
