From: "Clifford Lynch" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:18:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [99.35.225.113] (HELO [192.168.1.102]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.13) with ESMTPS id 20738940 for cni-announce@cni.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:34:30 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:27:16 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org Subject: SURF Foundation Colloquium on Quality Indicators for Journals Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The SURF Foundation in the Netherlands has recently issued a summary of a colloquium that they co-sponsored exploring the difficult and important issue of quality indicators for journals, with particular emphasis on young journals that are now being launched in large numbers under open access programs. The report can be found at http://www.surf.nl/en/actueel/Pages/Internationalscientificcommunityagreeonneedforqualityindicatorsfornew(OpenAccess)journals.aspx Clifford Lynch Director, CNI