Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet There are more than 50 questionable open access publishers on Jeffrey Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers. Some questionable journals publish independently of any publisher. How has this disease spread? Here are my thoughts and evidence: Plug-and-play content management such as Open Journal Systems (OJS) provides a no-cost easy way to set up a [...]
Thu, April 12 2012 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Tweet I saw an account of three major publishers’ copyright infringement law suit filed against open education publisher Boundless Learning (BL) in the April 5th Chronicle of Higher Education blog. If you launching an open education startup, viral word-of-mouth marketing is the inexpensive alternative to advertising. But then you attract venture capital funding and a [...]
Fri, April 6 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was looking at the website for the open access publisher PAGEPress and noticed their journals offered a very competitively priced author processing fee. The price for publication of each article in our journal is EUR 350,00. In attempting to understand how their implementation of open access publishing could be done so reasonably, I [...]
Sat, June 11 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet Well, if you quibble about whether this exercise reached a minimum quorum for voting, then you probably should have voted. Anyway, with 6 votes cast in the attempt to figure out the greatest source of open access embarrassment to date, the winner by a 4:2 landslide is….predatory open access. Frankly, I ran this poll [...]
Mon, April 18 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I really don’t care if InTechWeb has published 340+ books, 25,000+ authors, +2.5 million downloaded papers, all of them open access. I also don’t care that there are 25,029 persons in Facebook that claim to like them. There are places in the world, during these hard economic times, that specialize in creating a virtual population or marketing [...]
Thu, March 10 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet To refresh your memory, I have identified the open access publisher InTech of being a predator. Their prey are the rapidly expanding global community of time-pressured early-career academics that need to “publish or perish.” Intech charges them an “open access” article processing charge, accepts their submission, and quickly packages the individual research into digital [...]
Thu, December 23 2010 » Uncategorized » 7 Comments
Tweet I found a previously undetected open access publisher with a website, blog, youtube channel, and even a twitter feed called intechweb.org. The also have a selection of open access textbooks, including one on medical robotics. I went to their web site and confirmed that the publisher used a gold open access model of an [...]
Mon, October 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet At first this blog from iMedPub or oMedPub (take your pick, they seem to be used interchangeably) seemed attractive, at first glance, and also seemed to be highlighting promising articles from a new open access publisher. My skepticism began to grow as I conducted an excruciating search for a real person behind “a social publishing house which [...]
Sun, August 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Back in May I highlighted Jeffrey Beal’s article in the Charleston Advisor open access archive (the OA archive is open, unlike the rest of the journal) , an entertaining exposé about several open access publisher websites that don’t describe or respond to questions about peer review or anything else…just register as an author, insert [...]
Fri, July 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Remember a couple of years ago when there were smart and careful investors that nevertheless were tempted by the promise of easy money and a facade of offices and statements that masked a scheme that only truly rewarded the perpetrator? Now we have a term for a possible confidence game being played on scientists seeking [...]
Tue, May 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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