Fool's Gold Journal Spam
Amsciforum 2013-03-10
Summary:
Not only is it regrettable that OA is unthinkingly identified in most people's minds with gold OA publishing in general, but a growing spate of relentless fool's-gold junk-OA spamming in particular is now coalescing with that misconception -- and at the same time more and more universities and funders are reaching into their scarce funds to pay for this kind of thing, thinking this is the way to provide OA. Meanwhile, green OA mandates, the real solution, are still hovering at about 200 out of about 10,000 (2%!)...