Good News for Open Access, Bad News for PLoS?

Connotea Imports 2012-03-09

Summary:

"The traditional publishing houses (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier and the like) all have a stable of middle-ranking journals which can act as feeders for the OA mega-journal. This gives them an advantage - they can use the reviews they already have, and the author doesn't need to reformat the manuscript, just say "yes", pay the (about) same charge and get the acceptance sooner. So the publishers can reduce costs (and even engage in predatory pricing, if they so wish). Now, this leaves PLoS in a sticky situation. Their other journals are too high ranking, so they can't feed the PLoS ONE monster effectively...."

Link:

http://blogs.nature.com/boboh/2013/03/08/good-news-for-open-access-bad-news-for-plos

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.comment oa.plos oa.peer_review

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

03/09/2012, 22:30

Date published:

03/09/2012, 22:08