From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 22:28:38 -0500

Perhaps because, for a truly predatory OA publisher, no service is
being rendered (no real peer review, no copyediting, etc.) whereas a
traditional publisher may still be delivering print as well as
electronic and actually conducting true peer review as well as
providing copyediting?

Sandy Thatcher


At 7:15 PM -0400 5/23/13, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: Ken Masters <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:44:50 +0400
>
> Hi All
>
>>  Why is to predatory to ask an author to pay a few hundred dollars in
>>  processing charges for open access, but not predatory to increase a small
>>  college's subscription to a single journal 300% overnight (which has
>>  happened several times,
>
>
> Indeed, why is it predatory when an OA publisher requests payment of a
> few HUNDRED dollars to make an article OA, but NOT predatory when a
> "traditional" publisher requires a few THOUSAND dollars to make an
> article OA?
>
> Disclaimer: Editor of an OA journal
>
> Regards
>
> Ken
>
> ------
>
> Dr. Ken Masters
> Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
> Medical Education Unit
> College of Medicine & Health Sciences
> Sultan Qaboos University
> Sultanate of Oman
> E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education