Rabin hood
Your idea sounds impressive, thank you, I learned from you. The point is that OA environment has become so dirty that people like you and I are finding it difficult to distinguish good journals from bad ones. I think if an OA publisher carefully publishes fairly good quality articles in a relatively good time we may cautiously trust them. However, when I see a new novice OA publisher like this, it is getting difficult for others to build trust.
About the black list, I was asked from an OA publisher to apply for Pakistani index, I think, it was HSC or something like that and inside the instruction they clearly said they do not recognize that Pakistani journal. I know many people use Jeff’s list as a basis for assessing a journal in many countries. I hope he can categorize somehow his list so that criminal journals can be separated from others. Honestly, some people try to do healthy business and they are listed along with some worst practice titles.
His terms and conditions for assessing OA help many people take a more close look at their websites and their practices. I congratulate him for his work.
I know many universities take a look at the content of a published articles when a person wants to get promoted based on OA publications. On the other hand, I know many non-OA publishers do not perform review process, properly. For instance, Applied Mathematics and Computations was banned in some countries solely because they issued acceptance fairly quickly. This is a well known journal in the field of mathematics.
I hope some Libraries setup some promotions for Platinum OA publishers to subscribe when they promise not to receive money from authors. This way they could encourage good OA publishers to work harder, publish good quality papers and contribute to scientific society.
Naser
