Predatory open access journal wrap-up spring 2014 - IGIS - ANR Blogs

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-02-05

Summary:

"There has been a trend toward open access publishing that has been strengthened recently with a number of coincident efforts, for example Randy Scheckman's Nobel Prize talk, and the UC's Open Access policy for example. Some journals are opening up an open access component to their publishing - Remote Sensing of Environment for example now has an open access model as well as subscription model, and some new completely open access journals are coming on line. The open access model means the author pays the publisher for the costs of putting out an article, instead of the publisher charging universities subscription fees to allow access to the journal. Open access publishing is a great idea, whose time is ripe: publically funded research should be easily assessed by the public; in general the cost of publishing an open access journal is less than that of a regular article. But the rush to open has opened the window to fraudulent enterprises out to make a fast buck. Thus the landscape of open access publishing is often confusing, and there have been a number of great discussion about how to navigate the stormy waters of open access. Here is my wrap up of some of the informative posts out there ..."

Link:

http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=12792

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.gold oa.quality oa.credibility oa.predatory oa.journals

Date tagged:

02/05/2014, 09:00

Date published:

02/05/2014, 04:00