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 Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University Library<http://www.uu.nl/library> email: j.bos...@uu.nl<mailto: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 Bosman<http://www.uu.nl/university/library/en/disciplines/geo/Pages/ContactBosman.aspx> twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman profiles: : Academia<http://uu.academia.edu/JeroenBosman> / Google Scholar<http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-IfPy3IAAAAJ&hl=en> / ISNI<http://www.isni.org/0000000028810209> / Mendeley<http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jeroen-bosman/> / MicrosoftAcademic<http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/51538592/jeroen-bosman> / ORCID<http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5796-2727> / ResearcherID<http://www.researcherid.com/ProfileView.action?queryString=KG0UuZjN5WmCiHc%252FMC4oLVEKrQQu%252BpzQ8%252F9yrRrmi8Y%253D&Init=Yes&SrcApp=CR&returnCode=ROUTER.Success&SID=N27lOD6EgipnADLnAbK> / ResearchGate<http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeroen_Bosman/> / Scopus<http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7003519484> / Slideshare<http://www.slideshare.net/hierohiero> / VIAF<http://viaf.org/viaf/36099266/> / Worldcat<http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n91-100619> blogging at: I&M 2.0<http://im2punt0.wordpress.com/> / Ref4UU<http://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 Genomics<http://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. Theranostics<http://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 Systems<http://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 Science<http://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 Cancer<http://www.jcancer.org/> Ivyspring International Publisher $1100AUD Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Biological Sciences<http://www.ijbs.com/> Ivyspring International Publisher $1450AUD Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board. International Journal of Medical Sciences<http://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.au<mailto: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.
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