From: Ramune Kubilius <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:03:25 +0000

So, did anything happen on June 15th?

http://www.nature.com/news/pay-to-view-blacklist-of-
predatory-journals-set-to-launch-1.22090
https://www.cabells.com/newsletter-blacklist

Ramune Kubilius
Galter Health Sciences Library
Northwestern University

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From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:06:50 -0400

Thank you for this comment, Colette. It seems to me to pretty much hit the
bullseye.

Joe Esposito


On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:48 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Collette Mak <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:41:00 -0400
>
> thanks(!) for posting, I don't know how I missed that!
>
> There's no question that he comes across as a bitter, venom-spitting
curmudgeon in that opinion piece but it reminded me that we do owe him a
debt of gratitude for shining a spotlight on the very real issue of
predatory publishers and on the potential threat to the rigor of scholarly
publishing.  I disagree with him (and with the excellent LSE blog on
SciHub) that it's a failure of publishing.  I think it's more a failure of
promotion/tenure to have kept pace with a rapidly changing scholarly
communications environment. If you're going to be graded on publications
then people going to want to publish, Adam Smith's invisible hand is going
to meet that market demand.
>
> Guess it's my day to be the curmudgeon and, BTW, get off my lawn
>
> Collette
>
> Collette Mak
> Outreach and Scholarly Communications Librarian Hesburgh Libraries
>
> University of Notre Dame
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