In a sting operation, John Bohannon, a correspondent of Science, claims to have exposed dodgy open access journals. His argument seems to be that, because of their business model, some journals are biased towards accepting scientific articles, regardless of their quality. Sadly, Bohannon’s operation adds little to what we already know
A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term open access, but the practice of making j...
TEXT is an open access journal – i.e. available to all online and not hidden behind expensive pay-wa...
This column looks at the information literacy implications of the John Bohannon Open Access Sting
In a sting operation, John Bohannon, a correspondent of Science, claims to have exposed dodgy open a...
In October this year, Science published a journalistic investigation into quality of peer review in ...
# The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com In general, the...
Few weeks after the journal Science published a very unusual investigation by science journalist Joh...
In recent years the academic world has witnessed the mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to...
This chapter presents a three-phase analysis of 521 journals that use the open source publishing pla...
OA journals consequences for Science/ The scientific community; OA journals advantages/disadvantages...
A commentary published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access public...
This article examines the ways the gold open-access model is negatively affecting scholarly communic...
The rise of Open Access (OA) and its Gold business model – based on Article Process Charges (APC’s)...
“Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim t...
The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use...
A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term open access, but the practice of making j...
TEXT is an open access journal – i.e. available to all online and not hidden behind expensive pay-wa...
This column looks at the information literacy implications of the John Bohannon Open Access Sting
In a sting operation, John Bohannon, a correspondent of Science, claims to have exposed dodgy open a...
In October this year, Science published a journalistic investigation into quality of peer review in ...
# The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com In general, the...
Few weeks after the journal Science published a very unusual investigation by science journalist Joh...
In recent years the academic world has witnessed the mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to...
This chapter presents a three-phase analysis of 521 journals that use the open source publishing pla...
OA journals consequences for Science/ The scientific community; OA journals advantages/disadvantages...
A commentary published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access public...
This article examines the ways the gold open-access model is negatively affecting scholarly communic...
The rise of Open Access (OA) and its Gold business model – based on Article Process Charges (APC’s)...
“Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim t...
The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use...
A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term open access, but the practice of making j...
TEXT is an open access journal – i.e. available to all online and not hidden behind expensive pay-wa...
This column looks at the information literacy implications of the John Bohannon Open Access Sting