OMICS vs. The FTC: Plagiarism at a Predatory Publisher - Neuroskeptic

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-08-30

Summary:

"OMICS International is a large open access (OA) academic publishing group. Founded in 2007, OMICS has since grown rapidly  and now boasts of having over 700 journals with over 50,000 editorial board members. However, the rise of OMICS has not been welcomed by everyone; the company has been branded a ‘predatory publisher‘, accused of spamming academics, and of organizing poor quality ‘academic conferences’."

Link:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/08/29/omics-ftc-predatory-publisher/#.V8XdeZMrIfF

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.predatory oa.publishers oa.omics oa.gold oa.usa oa.government oa.litigation oa.peer_review oa.misconduct oa.wikipedia oa.plagiarism oa.negative oa.journals

Date tagged:

08/30/2016, 15:26

Date published:

08/30/2016, 11:26