Month: April 2017
India leads in Gold Open Access Publishing – fake or genuine?
This is a guest post by Leena Shah, DOAJ Ambassador, India.
It is interesting to note that since the introduction of new criteria for DOAJ listing in March 2014, we have received the highest number of new applications from Open Access journal publishers in India, followed by those in Indonesia, USA, Brazil and Iran. From around 1600 new applications received from India since March 2014 only 4% were accepted, with 78% of the applications rejected for various reasons and approximately 18% still in process.
Looking at the high volume of new applications from OA publishers wanting to be listed in DOAJ, it would seem that the Gold OA publishing model is well accepted and understood in India. But three quarters of the DOAJ applications from India in the last three years have been rejected – often for being questionable, duplicate applications or for not being a journal at all!…
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via South-South collaboration helps in the fight against invasive pests — The Plantwise Blog
Sridhar Gutam 