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• Post #2689249

  GOA2026: Pass 2, Part 2 520 more journals checked for a total of 1,000 (2,696 more to g0), A fair number of fixed xm/xx and added articles. It takes longer to succeed (adding new info) than to fail. The rest could take four days to two weeks to complete, maybe more. #goa2026

• Post #2689248

  GOA2026: Pass 2, Part 3: 500 more checked for a total of 1,500--well over halfway. (1,196 to go.) Fair amount of progress. #goa2026

• Post #2689247

  GOA2026: Pass 2, Part 4: Another 500. 2,000 done. 696 remaining. Good progress. Next report will be final--two to four days, depending on real life. #goa2026

• Post #2689246

  GOA2026: Pass 2. Complete--but the results for Iran over the past week or so have been so good, I'm rechecking the 242 "XX" Iran journals that are still there, before finishing up. (Now, if there was some sign that Egypt might finally fix its problem... But otherwise, I anticipate doing finishing touches in a couple of days. Then come several weeks of data massaging and book preparation, but a temporary dataset will probably be available. #goa2026

• Post #2689245

  Great flyer from The Billionaire Calif. Governor Candidate with zero gummint experience. He's good? No, one of his many opponents--the one who has Cabinet-level experience-is Bad and Takes Money from Unions and Others. Nothing like flat-out attack ads to show your credentials...maybe as a hidden Republican. I would say the flyer affected my preferences--but I wasn't going to vote for Big Bucks No Experience or Apparent Platform anyway.

• Post #2689244

  Gold/Diamond Open Access 2026: Data gathering is complete, and a little cleanup work reduced the dataset size very slightly. The overall summary--and a pointer to a preliminary version of the dataset--is at https://walt.lishost.org/2026/05/gold-diamond-open-access-2026-data-gathering-concluded-prelim-data-available/ NOTE: the prelim. share26 has been modified--NOT the data, but the order of columns, now newest-first. #goa2026

• Post #1696961

  GOA 2026: Day 98 200 journals. Cumulative 20,000 Last journal: California Agriculture Published by: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources [United States] Week Fourteen summary: https://walt.lishost.org/2026/04/gold-diamond-open-access-2026-fourteenth-week-summary/ #goa2026

• Post #1696960

  GOA 2026: Day 99 200 journals. Cumulative 20,200 Last journal: Apples: Journal of Applied Language Studies Published by: University of Jyväskylä [Finland] #goa2026

• Post #1696959

  GOA 2026: Day 100 240 journals. Cumulative 20,440 Last journal: Oradea Journal of Business and Economics Published by: University of Oradea Publishing House [Romania] #goa2026

• Post #1696958

  GOA 2026: Day 101 200 journals. Cumulative 20,640 Last journal: مدیریت کسب و کارهای بین المللی Published by: university of tabriz [Iran] #goa2026

• Post #1696957

  GOA 2026: Day 102 200 journals. Cumulative 20,840 Last journal: Annals of the Faculty of Engineering Hunedoara Published by: University Politehnica Timisoara [Romania] #goa2026

• Post #1696956

  #goa2026 Due to odd technical problems. there may be brief interruption in this process. (Where "may" means "will.")

• Post #1696955

  #goa2026 Due to hardware and software issues, there will be no weekly summary this week or daily summaries until order is restored--which should take roughly a week. Completion of the first pass still possible in very late April...but not certain.

• Post #1696954

  #goa2026 The recovery is complete, and journal scanning will resume Monday (oops). For a quick report: https://walt.lishost.org/2026/04/gold-diamond-open-access-2o26-whatever-happened-to-week-fifteen/

• Post #1696953

  GOA 2026: Day 103* 300 journals. Cumulative 21,140 Last journal: Respectus Philologicus Published by:Vilnius University [Lithuania] *and half a day on completion of recovery #goa2026

• Post #1696952

  GOA 2026: Day 104 460 journals. Cumulative 21,600 Last journal: JGH Open Published by: Wiley [Australia] #goa2026

• Post #1696951

  Apparently another big-deal person was defrauded of a whole bunch of cryptocrap, in this case Bitcoin. I'd like to feel sorry for him (it's usually a him), but...well, when you're "investing" in nonsense, you can wind up with nonsense--and, with crypto as with generative "AI", help burn the world in the process. That limits my sympathy.

• Post #1696950

  GOA 2026: Day 105 300 journals. Cumulative 21,900 Last journal: CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research Published by: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications [India] Week Fifteen summary: https://walt.lishost.org/2026/04/gold-diamond-open-access-2026-week-fifteen-summary/ #goa2026

• Post #1696949

  An unoriginal thought: Nobody with reasonable intelligence would use the term "Low IQ" as an insult--and if that nobody proclaims their own high intelligence in the process, you can be sure they're a jackass and probably an ignoramus.

• Post #1696948

  GOA 2026: Day 106 300 journals. Cumulative 22,200 Last journal: Elpis Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku [Poland] #goa2026

• Post #1696947

  GOA 2026: Day 107--end of first pass 216 journals. Cumulative 22,416 Last journal: Zhongguo youzhi Published by: 中粮工科（西安）国际工程有限公司 [China] First pass summary: https://walt.lishost.org/2026/04/gold-diamond-open-access-2026-week-fifteen-summary/ #goa2026

• Post #1696946

  GOA2026: Pass 2, Part 1 480 journals checked. The good news: a fair number either added articles or went from problematic to clean. The bad: The nearly-complete inaccessibility of Egyptian academic and society OA journals continues. I scanned the rest of them after seeing lots in the first 160+; in all, 318 Egyptian journals timed out, none recovered. A shame. Another report in a couple of days. #goa2026