From: Philip Davis <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:42:11 -0400 Apologies if I missed this thread, but has a librarian taken the 158 titles that accepted Bohannon's bogus paper and figured out whether they are indexed in PubMed or are archived in PubMed Central? I'm not concerned that vanity journals exist in the first place (they will always exist), but would be extremely worried if organizations, like the National Library of Medicine, gives these journals credibility--and the articles published therein authority--by being hosted in PMC. If they were, the NLM would need to consider whether delisting their journal and purging their content is appropriate. The titles that accepted (and rejected) the bogus paper are listed in Bohannon's supplementary data. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60/suppl/DC1 Thank you, Phil Davis