Publishing may be dirt cheap but any systematic/formal e.g. academic publishing isn't free... So the problem is that while there is a necessary and valuable shift from commercial publishing (and outrageous profiteering) to open access online publishing there really aren't any good business models yet to cover the (much less but not totally trivial) costs of the new forms of academic publishing.
If for whatever reason (and there are lots including the issues pointed to here) one doesn't want to go to a pay for play model that leaves advertising(???) or donations (???) or... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Brooks Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences It's not curious. It is accurate. As the funding model moved from subscribers paying for access to authors paying for publication, the financial incentives changed as well. The loosening of standards is an obvious consequence of this decision. The question of how best to publish quality academic information is non-trivial. Like the question of where to get quality current affairs information. It will take a while for things to adjust to the ability of the Internet to make publishing dirt-cheap. On 04/08/2013 12:19 PM, James Losey wrote: > I think it's curious how this article frames the journals as "open > access" rather than a more appropriate "pay to play" > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Yosem Companys <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > From: Nathaniel Poor <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-w > orld-of-pseudo-academia.html > > "The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called > Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation > to the leading professional association of scientists who study > insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...." > > This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a > newspaper story. > > ------------------------------- > Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. > http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ > https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password > by emailing moderator at [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings > at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- =================== R. R. Brooks Associate Professor Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Clemson University 313-C Riggs Hall PO Box 340915 Clemson, SC 29634-0915 USA Tel. 864-656-0920 Fax. 864-656-5910 email: [email protected] web: http://www.clemson.edu/~rrb -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
