The Austrian Science Board and the FWF Respond to the Recent Media Reports on the Questionable Practices of Several Scholarly Publishers

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Summary:

ecent national and international media reports on questionable practices in scholarly publishing (“predatory publishing”) have conveyed the impression that this constitutes a serious problem for Austria as a research location. However, that is far from the truth. All available data show that only a tiny fraction of scientists and researchers in Austria, a figure that is considerably below 1 per cent, have been affected by such practices. Moreover, the scientific community, on both the national and international levels, tackled the phenomenon early on and has developed binding standards (Chen, Y / Björk BC et al (2015): Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics, BMC Medicine13:230; Science Europe (2015): Principles on Open Access to Research Publications; Kraker, P et al (2016): The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century). 

Link:

https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20180724-2314/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.austria oa.publishers oa.predatory oa.credibility oa.quality oa.funders oa.prices oa.economics_of oa.fees oa.repositories oa.dora oa.assessment oa.collaboration oa.infrastructure

Date tagged:

08/20/2018, 07:39

Date published:

08/20/2018, 03:39