Unserious open access publishing has become a new industry | Lum

[From Google's English] "Open access model has a great advantage in that the readers - individuals and institutions - do not have the established publishers soaring subscription costs. But it requires a editorial control that is strong enough to guarantee the quality. So is it in the majority of open access journals, but not in all. - We see the rogue journals as a problem, as they will damage confidence in the open access idea. And it may be difficult for the individual researcher to assess if a particular journal is serious or just looking for his or her money, says Kristoffer Holmqvist at the University Library. He knows that some rogue magazine editors are very intrusive, and quickly contact eg all scientists who participated in a particular conference. - They promise an impact if they publish in their journal, but has not much justification for their promises into practice. Kristoffer Holmqvist refers to the 'Reluctant OA publishing' on the University Libraries' website. There's advice to those who need to assess a certain publishers, eg that one should look for who is on the journal's editorial board, if it has good contact information and the terms for publication is reasonable. An example of the amount of rogue journals came last fall. When told research journalist John Bohannon in Science on how he tests sent out a fake scientific paper to over 300 open access journals. Under the guise of being a scientist from Ethiopia, he claimed to have found an amazing cancer agents in a kind of lichen ..."