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 http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
