6:36 p.m.
Ser i LIBRIS att 15 bibliotek har tidskriften Sustainability i sina
kataloger med hänvisning till DOAJ. Tidskriften är utgiven av
förlaget MDPI som BIBSAM som bekant tecknat avtal med.
https://libris.kb.se/bib/11972366
https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050
https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/3746
Retraction Watch skriver att
In 2022, Norway removed Sustainability from its list of journals that
researchers get credit for publishing in, and Finland followed suit at the
beginning of 2023. In the announcement of its decision, the Finnish
Publication Forum wrote:
Sustainability also publishes high-quality articles, but the wide scope,
large publication volume and fast publication processes have undermined
confidence that the journal’s procedures to ensure scientific quality work
reliably down the line. The large variability in quality is partly the
result of thousands of special issues that are common also in other MDPI
journals
https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside.action?request_l…
https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en
Nu har även Scopus börjat närgranska tidskriften
Elsevier’s Scopus database has paused indexing content from Sustainability,
an MDPI journal, while it reevaluates whether to include the title,
Retraction Watch has learned.
Other MDPI titles were reevaluated in 2023, and its mathematics journal
Axioms is no longer included in Scopus’ nearly 30,000 titles. Clarivate
also delisted two MDPI journals, including the International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health, from its Web of Science index
earlier this year, meaning those journals will no longer receive impact
factors.
Det är svårt att dela BIBSAM:s glädje över avtalet med MDPI, en paper mill
som sätter profiten före kvalitén
Anna Lundén, Acting Department Director, National Library of Sweden says,
"We are very pleased with this new publishing agreement between the Swiss
Open Access publisher MDPI and participating organizations within the
Bibsam Consortium. The agreement includes a ten percent discount on all
processing charges for articles by Bibsam corresponding authors. To sign
publishing agreements with Open Access publishers is an important step in
line with our action plan to open up Swedish research to the world".
En utomordentlig granskning av vetenskapliga tidskrifter görs av Norwegian
Register for Scientific journals, Series and Publishers. Finland har
inspirerats och
Sverige borde följa efter.
Jan
Jan
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Jan Szczepański
F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora,
vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63(a)gmail.com