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