Peter Suber counted 14 new OA journal or book publishers established in 2009:
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (QScience.com) (publishing Perspectives in International Librarianship!)
- Bookbon (apparently deceased)
- Fountain Publishers (the open access experiment apparently ended)
- French Creek Press (humanities, and if there is OA here, it is hidden)
- Impact Journals (IMHO the class of this undistinguished class)
- iMedPub Journals and Books(I took this publisher to task already)
- Kenwood Academic (real in URL only?)
- MediaCommons Press (humanities oriented)
- Open Academic Press (now Open Access Press)
- Open Access Press (read below)
- Open Access Publications (unclear if this currently represents a unique publisher)
- Open Monograph Press (an imprint of the Public Knowledge Project)
- Page Press (predatory publishing candidate)
- Sciyo (now InTechWeb, whom I have taken to task)
This was probably a year to forget. Take, for example, Open Access Press. There are only 6 facebook fans (at the time of writing this). Their attempt at a persuasive video contains a typographic error:
If they are hosting a journal, they are hiding that accomplishment. Perhaps the market for simplifying the open access publishing process has evaporated. After all, support for the Open Journal System is, well, openly supported.
So out of these 14 2009 entries into some level of open access publishing, only the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (QScience.com) and Impact Journals seem to have the level of openly visible publisher and editorial credit I associate with peer review and a glimmer of success and viability.
