Validating Author Services Providers: Q&A with Donald Samulack | The Scholarly Kitchen

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-09-16

Summary:

"Offering 'author services' is the name of the game right now. Publishers and service providers are keen to make publishing an easier process for authors. At the same time, the global research community, some under enormous pressure to publish in English-language journals, are being referred to and turning to service vendors to help them with language editing, authoring tools, pre-submission peer review, etc. The reputable vendors aren’t the only ones to see this wave of services coupled with a very large customer pool with the means to pay. We can no longer discuss 'predatory' publishing without also addressing author services providers that are taking advantage of researchers. I wrote about a cottage industry of deceit some time ago and even more evidence has been piling on—paper mills, bought authorship, guarantees to get papers in top journals, and compromised reviews have been discovered with a slew of retractions. Donald Samulack, President, U.S. Operations, Cactus Communications and Editage, is proposing a coalition to address the issue. At the recent ISMTE Meeting in Baltimore, accompanied by Hazel Newton (Springer Nature), Josh Dahl (Thomson Reuters), Gordon MacPherson (IEEE), and Jeffrey Beall, Don presented the proposal for a Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources. The site includes his vision as well as videos from the ISMTE sessions where this was discussed. I asked Don a few questions about why he thinks this Coalition is needed, how it might work, and about challenges that need to be faced. I am very much looking forward to your questions and suggestions in the comments section ..."

Link:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/09/16/validating-author-services-providers-qa-with-donald-samulack/

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oa.new oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.gold oa.fees oa.quality oa.credibility oa.predatory oa.recommendations oa.interviews oa.journals oa.people

Date tagged:

09/16/2015, 17:41

Date published:

09/16/2015, 13:41