RE: Creative Commons in Action, and the DOAJ growth doubled over the past year

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

Sandy

They are not all newly launched journals - they are new to the 
DOAJ so they could either be existing OA journals that have just 
come to the attention of the DOAJ, existing subscription-based 
journals that have converted to OA, or newly launched OA 
journals.

David

David C Prosser
SPARC Europe


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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Thatcher
Sent: 05 September 2008 00:36
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Subject: Re: Creative Commons in Action, and the DOAJ growth doubled over
the past year

I have to say that I find this statistic rather alarming. Does 
the world really need all these new journals? At least when 
libraries had to buy journals, there was some market discipline 
being exercised on the growth of new journals. And presumably 
some degree of expertise, by library staff or faculty advisors, 
was being exercised in the selection of new journals. But now it 
seems that journals are becoming another form of vanity 
publishing, if not outright scams as have been questioned on this 
listserv, and we are seeing an exponential rate of growth. Maybe 
we will soon get to the point where every faculty member will 
decide to edit an OA journal where all his or her friends can get 
published?

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press


>In 2007, DOAJ was adding titles at an average rate of 1.2 titles
>per calendar day. In the past 11 months, DOAJ has been adding new
>titles at an average rate of 2.2 titles per calendar day.