From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:57:58 +0000 Cyril Labbé deserves the publishing industry's gratitude for uncovering this serious problem with two toll-access publishers. Here's hoping his findings get a more appropriate reception than the defensiveness, personal attacks, and misrepresentations that greeted John Bohannon when he exposed a similar problem with 157 OA publishers. --- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask] On 2/25/14 4:30 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >From: Jean-Claude Guédon <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:44:50 -0500 > >We all know that the value added by publishers is peer review.... > >And it is what justifies the "reasonable" prices of access licenses... > >Perhaps the "rogue" category of journals should be considerably enlarged. > >jcg > > > >Le lundi 24 février 2014 à 21:48 -0500, LIBLICENSE a écrit : > >From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:42:31 -0500 > >The news du jour: "The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more >than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French >researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated >nonsense." In today's article by reporter Richard Van Noorden, you can >even find out how to make a start on your own gibberish paper. These >were published mainly in conference proceedings. > >http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-pap >ers-1.14763