As usual, my comments in blue.
Jean-Claude Guédon
On 2019-08-22 11:27 a.m., Heather Morrison wrote:
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To conclude my portion of this discussion, I would like to highlight two
limitations of DOAJ that to me represent important problems for the future of
scholarly communication with no
DOAJ has been a valuable service to the open access movement over the years, in
tracking and linking to a select set of open access journals and providing
metadata that is helpful for researchers like me and to include DOAJ content in
library services.
Like any service or initiative, DOAJ has
Thank you very much, David. What you say about DOAJ's reactions to feedback and
critique can also be extended to many groups, organizations and people involved
in the promotion of OA. As for the "OA movement", if it is treated like some
kind of homogeneous, unanimous group of advocates, I have
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the global Open Access 2020 Initiative, I am very happy to pass
along this exciting news from our partners Projekt DEAL in Germany who are
working to refactor subscription expenditures to support open access
dissemination of research instead of paywalls:
Dear all
I am pretty much an outsider on this list. I have a serious commitment to open
access publishing, and for awhile was seconded by my university to engage with
the broader agenda and its implications.
Since then I have been doing other work and research which makes extremely
clear the
I was on the Advisory Board at the time and so my comments may be discounted.
But my feeling is that the history of the DOAJ over the past few years has been
that it has responded positively to very robust criticism, worked closely with
the wider community in an interactive and engaged way to
