[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Dark Side of Openness: Identity Theft and Fraudulent Postings By Predatory OA Publishers

[Ulrich Herb]

I tend to agree with Thomas. Of course I appreciate Jeffrey Beals list 
and his work very much, but we should not forget that predatory 
publishing is also a practice of toll access publishers - or let's say 
of publishing itself. And I even think it is more widespread in toll 
access than in open access as TA is more opaque. Just think of Elseviers 
fake journals or the fake reviews reported by the chronicle and others. 
As far as I know some TA publishers start to make OA publishing 
predatory by pushing submissions that did not make it through the review 
process of their TA journals into their fee-based OA journals  ... which 
is just a simple trick to make money from papers that did not make it 
into their TA products and cannot be sold via subscriptions.


best regards

Ulrich Herb

Am 19.12.2012 03:25, schrieb Thomas Krichel:
>    Stevan Harnad writes
>
>> The research community needs to unite to expose, name and shame these
>> increasingly criminal practices by predatory "publishers"
>
>    I wonder if there is a criterion for when a publisher is "predatory".
>
>> bent on making a fast buck by abusing the research community's
>> legitimate desire for open access (OA) (as well as exploiting some
>> researchers' temptation to get accepted for publication fast, no
>> matter what the cost or quality).
>
>    If the aim open access then we should first expose the toll-gated
>    publishers who have for many years extraordinary profits from
>    material they obtained for free and that was reviewed for them for
>    free. Surely the amounts wasted on open access publishing dwarf the
>    sum spent on library subscriptions to buy access to articles that
>    nobody ever seems to cite, so probably nobody ever reads.
>
>    Cheers,
>
>    Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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