Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Bo Zhang

This is a good and complex question. Since my university only purchased ScienceDirect and partial Wiley database, OA seems useful. Are there enough OA j? I’ll read OASPA’s publications during this weekend, and they should have an answer. During last 6 years, I have seen good OA journals, but few. Here gives a long list of publishers that we should not work with. The rest options are big publishers who charge $2000 APC, and some small new publishers that I cannot recognize. In my opinion, making a good journal is only related to the quality and efforts of the editorial team. The quality of published papers is related to the quality of the writers attracted by the editorial team.
An OA journal is always associated with huge APC. But my calculation tells me the cost per year is around $1000. Most money will go to CLOCKSS, DOI, OASPA, DOAJ, maybe more. My thought is if a journal is run by scientists, we don’t need to charge too much APC at all. I apologize that my thoughts are not always logical. Doing too much research makes me feel that business is very confusing.