From: Pippa Smart <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:29:57 +0000
His blog is worth checking out -
http://metadata.posterous.com/?tag=predatoryopenaccessjournals
as he includes summaries about apparently unethical publishers - a
good list to alert your researchers to.
Pippa
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On 8 March 2012 19:59, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:39:36 -0500
>
> Yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education has a long piece on 'predatory
> OA journals', with a focus on the work of a Colorado librarian who
> monitors the business.
>
> Do list readers think this is a significant problem? A growing problem?
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/Predatory-Online-Journals/131047/?key=HD10d1VhNHdJbCsyZTgRMj4EOyFoZk0hYn9JPS8pbl9cEQ%3D%3D
>
> Extract:
>
> The practice of charging authors to have their work published is not
> inherently problematic, said Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the
> University of Colorado at Denver, who tracks open-access publishers
> that operate on an author-pays model.
>
> "There is nothing wrong with the model itself," Mr. Beall said, citing
> author-pays publishers he considers to be legitimate, like the Public
> Library of Science (PLoS). But, he said, because the author-pays
> system features an inherent conflict of interest—publishers make more
> money if they accept more articles—it is ripe for abuse.
>
> Such abuse is becoming more prevalent, Mr. Beall said. On his blog
> Scholarly Open Access, he keeps a running list of what he calls
> "predatory" open-access publishers. Mr. Beall said he uncovers one new
> predatory journal or publishing company about every week, and his list
> now totals more than 50 publishers and individual journals.
>
> Mr. Beall defines a "predatory" publisher as one whose main goal is to
> generate profits rather than promote academic scholarship. Such
> publishers, he said, "add little value to scholarship, pay little
> attention to digital preservation, and operate using fly-by-night,
> unsustainable business models."
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> Georgetown U.
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