[GOAL] Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'
Hello all, I recently looked at the DOAJ list of Australian journals to determine how many Australian OA journals charge an APC. 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 Genomicshttp://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. Theranosticshttp://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 Systemshttp://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 Sciencehttp://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 Cancerhttp://www.jcancer.org/ Ivyspring International Publisher $1100AUD Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Biological Scienceshttp://www.ijbs.com/ Ivyspring International Publisher $1450AUD Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Medical Scienceshttp://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.aumailto: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. ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Nordic Council of Ministers launches new e-collection Press Release 26 March
PRESS RELEASE 26 MARCH 2014 If you want a Nordic perspective on green growth, welfare, health or the climate, the Nordic Council of Ministers' (NCM) new e-collection - http://norden.diva-portal.org - is a good place to start. Launched today, the e-collection provides access to some 3,000 Nordic publications free to download. For example, the 627-page scientific work Nordic Nutrition Recommendationshttp://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=4pid=diva2:704251, the cornerstone of dietary guidelines in the Nordic countries, is due out tomorrow in book form but is already available in the new e-collection as a free download. Open Access The new platform for the e-collection has been developed by Uppsala University Library and is based on Open Source software. It complements the Open Access mandate that the NCM has bestowed upon its Secretary General, Dagfinn Høybråten. The mandate includes a requirement that all publications published and funded by the NCM's Secretariat and institutions will in future be Open Access, i.e. as a minimum available as free downloads. This step has been taken to improve access to the many hundreds of publications that the NCM publishes every year, and to send a clear signal to the world that we in the Nordic Region support democratic principles such as transparency and equal access for all, in deeds as well as in words. Facts The Nordic Council of Ministers is responsible for inter-governmental co-operation in the Nordic Region and has an annual budget of just under DKK 1 billion. As well as its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the NCM has 16 offices and institutions and works with whole host of other organisations. The portal: http://norden.diva-portal.org The Open Access mandate: http://www.norden.org/en/publications/open-access/open-access-mandate Contact: Niels Stern, n...@norden.orgmailto:n...@norden.org, Tel. +45 21717140 Niels Stern Head of Unit, Publications Direct +45 33 96 04 10 n...@norden.orgmailto:n...@norden.org Nordic Council of Ministers Ved Stranden 18 DK-1061 Copenhagen www.norden.orghttp://www.norden.org/ Denne mail er blevet scannet af http://www.comendo.com og indeholder ikke virus! ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] I dropped the “NC” from my Creative Commons License
I dropped the “NC” rom my Creative Commons License http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/i-dropped-the-nc-from-my-creative-commons-license/ I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I was finally pushed into action by a post I read this morning on Hugh Rundle’s blog. What did I do? I dropped the “NC”--the non-commercial use stipulation--on the Creative Commons license I’ve been using on my blog. Rundle writes: Originally I chose a CC-BY-NC license because I didn’t like the idea of some commercial publisher selling my work as part of a package. Partially this was me thinking “If they’re going to charge, I should get a cut and partially They shouldn’t be allowed to charge people for my work that I give away for free. I am sure you have discerned that these two thoughts are contradictory. Actually, I’ve never cared about getting a cut. But as an open access advocate I was definitely concerned that a commercial interest not be able to profit from work that I was giving away for free. I reasoned the added friction of the “NC would serve as a deterrent. … Gary F. Daught Omega Alpha | Open Access Advocate for open access publishing in religion and theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oaopenaccess at gmail dot com @OAopenaccess ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'
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 GeographyGeoscience Utrecht University Libraryhttp://www.uu.nl/library email: j.bos...@uu.nlmailto:j.bos...@uu.nl telephone: +31.30.2536613 mail: Postbus 80124, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands visiting address: room 2.50, Heidelberglaan 3. Utrecht web: Jeroen Bosmanhttp://www.uu.nl/university/library/en/disciplines/geo/Pages/ContactBosman.aspx twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman profiles: : Academiahttp://uu.academia.edu/JeroenBosman / Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-IfPy3IJhl=en / ISNIhttp://www.isni.org/28810209 / Mendeleyhttp://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jeroen-bosman/ / MicrosoftAcademichttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/51538592/jeroen-bosman / ORCIDhttp://orcid.org/-0001-5796-2727 / ResearcherIDhttp://www.researcherid.com/ProfileView.action?queryString=KG0UuZjN5WmCiHc%252FMC4oLVEKrQQu%252BpzQ8%252F9yrRrmi8Y%253DInit=YesSrcApp=CRreturnCode=ROUTER.SuccessSID=N27lOD6EgipnADLnAbK / ResearchGatehttp://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeroen_Bosman/ / Scopushttp://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7003519484 / Slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/hierohiero / VIAFhttp://viaf.org/viaf/36099266/ / Worldcathttp://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n91-100619 blogging at: IM 2.0http://im2punt0.wordpress.com/ / Ref4UUhttp://ref4uu.blogspot.com/ - Trees say printing is a thing of the past From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley Sent: dinsdag 25 maart 2014 5:46 To: 'goal@eprints.org' Subject: [GOAL] Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian' Hello all, I recently looked at the DOAJ list of Australian journals to determine how many Australian OA journals charge an APC. 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 Genomicshttp://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. Theranosticshttp://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 Systemshttp://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 Sciencehttp://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 Cancerhttp://www.jcancer.org/ Ivyspring International Publisher $1100AUD Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Biological Scienceshttp://www.ijbs.com/ Ivyspring International Publisher $1450AUD Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Medical Scienceshttp://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.aumailto: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
[GOAL] COASP Asia: Earlybird discounted rate ends 31st March
The early bird discount for OASPA's 1st Asian Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing ends on March 31st. Make sure you register your place this week to benefit from a reduced rate: http://www.oaspa-asia-conference.com/registration/ The conference will be held on 2-3 June 2014 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. View the Full Program at http://www.oaspa-asia-conference.com/program/. This international conference will bring together academic publishers, librarians and the research community to discuss open access publishing as a global industry with a key focus on Asia as an emerging market. The conference aims to provide a forum in which speakers and delegates can share their thoughts and best practices from all aspects of the field including OA policies, advocacy and the development of OA journals in Asia. For information on sponsorship opportunities available, please contact nick.m...@biomedcentral.com. Claire Redhead Membership Communications Manager Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA http://oaspa.org/ ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
