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This has to be the funniest article I have read in years. IUt should have been published on April 1st.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</A><BR>
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Here is the abstract:<BR>
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<I>While the open-access (OA) movement purports to be about making scholarly content</I><BR>
<I>open-access, its true motives are much different. The OA movement is an anti-corporatist movement</I><BR>
<I>that wants to deny the freedom of the press to companies it disagrees with. The movement is also</I><BR>
<I>actively imposing onerous mandates on researchers, mandates that restrict individual freedom. To</I><BR>
<I>boost the open-access movement, its leaders sacrifice the academic futures of young scholars and</I><BR>
<I>those from developing countries, pressuring them to publish in lower-quality open-access journals.</I><BR>
<I>The open-access movement has fostered the creation of numerous predatory publishers and</I><BR>
<I>standalone journals, increasing the amount of research misconduct in scholarly publications and the</I><BR>
<I>amount of pseudo-science that is published as if it were authentic science.</I><BR>
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Incidentally, I wonder if Beall knows that <B>corporatism</B> was a doctrine supported by Pope Leo XIII in the late 19th century. Fascist corporatism was of course one of the main tenets of Mussolini's political agenda. I suspect he meant "anti-corporation" meaning really anti-capitalistic. <BR>
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Jean-Claude Guédon<BR>
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Jean-Claude Guédon
Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal
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