Collective health - The political dimension of open access: knowledge as a public good or as a commodity?

" ... There are many other false associations of this type, like the one in the experiment by John Bohannon, published in the journal Science ( 3 ), in which manufactured items with dummy data to send to magazines exclusively Open Access, for which selected a large percentage of magazines list generated and updated by Jeffrey Beall, librarian at the University of Colorado, USA The Beall's list ( 4 , 5 ) includes publishers and magazines called "predatory", using open access and display very unclear practices, such as having fictitious editorial boards, advertise a factor value no impact, lock files control to prevent plagiarism, send requests to revise articles through mass emails ( spam ) ( 6 ), among many other practices that aim to capture pressured by post, willing to pay and with little experience in publishing authors, allowing them to generate a highly lucrative business, funded by unsuspecting authors ..."