[Irtalk] Delayed open access journals

[Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>]

Dear Jansie

My small contribution:

The only difference between open access and subscription access, is that - with open access - the reader does not have to pay. All OA journals included in DOAJ has gone through some kind of process to be included, and a very important requirement is that all articles must have a peer-review policy in place.

My problem with pre-prints: these articles have not gone through a peer-review process yet, and if cited and applied, it might have huge consequences. Therefore - we avoid pre-prints as far possible. We only include post-prints (following review) and publishers' versions (also see SHERPA RoMEO and individual web pages for journals to view their policies).

To answer your question: No. If an article was never of good quality, it should not have been published in the first place. If it had merit, it should have been referred to other experts for further input, and should have been revised before being submitted for a second peer-review.

Kind regards
Ina

Ina Smith
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From: irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] On Behalf Of Jantina Bertha Louw
Sent: 17 June 2014 04:18 PM
To: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
Subject: [Irtalk] Delayed open access journals

To whom it may concern,

Something interesting on delayed open access journals and the impact thereof on the citation rate of journal articles. Does the quality of the article or abstract determines if a journal article is open access? Please advice.

Thank you in advance

Friendly greetings

Jansie Louw
Tshwane University of Technology
Library & Information Services
Private Bag X680
Pretoria 0001
South Africa

Tel   +27 12 3824313
Fax +27 12 3825817

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