Papermills prefer Open Access. TL;DR: the rate of Papermill Alarm… | by Adam Day | Mar, 2024 | Medium
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"I’m a big believer in Open Science. It wouldn’t have been possible to build Clear Skies, or the services we offer, if we didn’t have free and open scientific resources like Crossref, RoR, ORCID and OpenAlex. Resources like these are critical infrastructure. If they weren’t open, they couldn’t be....
There are excellent OA journals and I don’t think that it would be fair to make a sweeping characterisation of the OA movement as “just selling authors lines for their CVs”. But, if you consider that papermills absolutely are in the business of selling authors lines on their CVs, you can see that that might align better with an author-service business model.
That might partly explain what we’re seeing here, but hopefully I’ve made it clear that the explanation isn’t simple...."