Good morning,
The Oak list database (http://www.oaklist.qut.edu.au/) could help you to
search publishers and journals published in Australia classified
according ROMEO/SHERPA colors, which is an indication of their openness.
Regards from a the Mediterranean coast under a blue sky.
Reme
El 27/03/2014 00:26, Danny Kingsley escribió:
Hello all,
Thank you for the responses sent through to my specific question about
a particular publisher being identified as 'Australian'. It has
sparked a secondary discussion about the value or otherwise of
locating a publisher in a particular country -- and the value
judgements that might be subsequently assigned.
While this in itself is a worthwhile discussion, I would like to note
the reason why I was trying to establish the number of Australian OA
journals in the first place.
In OA advocacy (which is primarily my job) much of what needs to be
done is convince people (either individual researchers , institutions
or governments) that open access is worthwhile, worth investing in and
also that any investment has been well spent. To do this we need
numbers and benchmarks. I can't speak for other places around the
world but in Australia we are having difficulty obtaining even basic
information about where we stand internationally in open access stakes.
While we were early adopters of institutional repository software and
have full coverage across out institutions of operational
repositories, over one quarter of our universities have open access
policies and our two primary government funding bodies have open
access policies we do not know whether this has translated into a high
level of open access research here. A paper about the Australian
situation is here
http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/39/121
We do not currently have any automated way of knowing how much
material is available within repositories as full text open access nor
do we know what percentage of the previous year's research is now
available open access (which could be benchmarked). On the other road,
we could potentially create a system to pull information from our
publication reporting to find out what we are publishing in fully open
access journals (but we don't have it now), and we do not know what or
where we are spending on APCs (so we have very little idea about how
much we are publishing as hybrid OA).
One number that relatively simply could be collected is the number of
open access journals Australia is publishing. Hence the original question.
Danny
*From:* goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On
Behalf Of *Jean-Claude Guédon
*Sent:* Thursday, 27 March 2014 2:00 AM
*To:* goal@eprints.org
*Subject:* [GOAL] Re: Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed
as 'Australian'
Beall's remark about the importance of the country where a publication
is located, if he is right, fully demonstrates how stupid the
evaluation process has become. The next step, I suppose, is to create
a ranking of countries and thus establish their status with regard to
scientific publishing. It also leads to really weird forms of
reasoning such as: a press in Brazil, or India, or China, or Russia,
is obviously not as good as a press in the US, in Britain, in Holland,
etc... What about Italy? Greece? Portugal? What about Mexico? What
about South Africa? What about the rest of Africa? Is Australia OK?
How many implicit forms of racism or cultural arrogance are hidden in
such a perspective?
Jean-Claude Guédon
Le mardi 25 mars 2014 à 17:42 -0600, Beall, Jeffrey a écrit :
Danny,
I have been monitoring this publisher closely recently. I regularly
receive inquiries about it -- researchers asking me whether it is
predatory or not.
I currently do not have it included on the list of predatory
publishers. Contrary to an opinion expressed earlier, for many, the
country of publication is very important. Researchers in many
countries get more academic credit towards tenure, promotion, and the
annual evaluation when they publish in a journal based in a western
country. (This is why many predatory publishers often pretend to be
from western countries).
I recently posted an inquiry on this list seeking comments about this
company's peer-review portability policy (it allows authors themselves
to transfer peer reviews from the rejecting publisher to Ivyspring.)
Ivyspring until recently said it was based in Wyoming, NSW. Now
they've changed their official address to this:
Ivyspring International Publisher Pty Ltd
Level 32, 1 Market Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia
That address matches the address of Alliance Business Centers
<http://www.abcn.com/offices-sydney--level-32-1-market-street-3264>, a
virtual office company. Also, according to an Australian business
directory, the publisher's owner is Jinxin Jason Lin.
I think it's safe to say this company lacks needed transparency. Who
owns it? Where are they based? What experience do the owners have with
scholarly publishing? Why are they using a virtual office as their
headquarters address? What is the extent of this company's connection
to Australia? To other countries?
--Jeffrey Beall
*From:* goal-boun...@eprints.org <mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org>
[mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] *On Behalf Of *Danny Kingsley
*Sent:* Monday, March 24, 2014 10:46 PM
*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*
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