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%!)...

Link:

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/850-Fools-Gold-Journal-Spam.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Amsciforum

Tags:

spam oa.new oa.gold oa.green oa.repositories oa.journals

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 12:33

Date published:

10/30/2011, 01:04