CMAJ and openness: audacity or ignorance?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"I keep trying to figure out whether the CMAJ’s recent unofficial series of articles on various types of “open” is irony-aware or just pushing forward without realising what they’re doing....Yes, you read that right. An article about how a journals’ acceptance of drug ads correlated with biased drug information in said journals was spun as “free journals are junk” a year after CMAJ – which incidentally accepts a whole bunch of pharmaceutical advertising – stopped being entirely free online...."

Link:

http://sjlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/cmaj-and-openness-audacity-or-ignorance/

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Tags:

ru.no oa.medicine oa.new oa.gold oa.comment oa.case.journals oa.ads oa.canada oa.journals

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 14:16

Date published:

03/28/2011, 11:01