Re: [LINK] European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals
On Friday, 7 September 2018 13:30:11 AEST JLWhitaker wrote: > ABC RN Science Friction had a big story about science fraud today. Worth a > listen. Mostly it was about the Chinese Science situation where publishing is > required, so an industry of false results and false peer reviews has grown up > to support it. Yes, that was very interesting, and the Chinese Government is apparently well onto it, thank goodness. The ABC ran another item in less serious vein recently on James Valentine's afternoon show. It seems a very bright young lady hacked into her School's computer system. While she was there she sent a letter to the parents of 20 of her friends saying the School was very pleased with their work and academic progress and wished to reward them by allowing the group a day at the beach, and would the parents consider giving them some pocket money for their day out. This enterprise was only rumbled when one mother rushed up to the School on the day saying that her daughter had forgotten her swimmers. The School banned the perpertrator for one month but apparently told her they would employ her to go through the system and make sure something similar couldn't happen again on her return, since the people they employed to do this were pretty useless! DavidL. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
Re: [LINK] European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals
On 05/09/18 16:30, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals ... A move to open access research publishing will need, I suggest, a well resourced information campaign, and a well staffed anti-fraud unit. Otherwise we are likely to see fraud on a scale similar to that resulting from the poorly managed Australian VET FEE-HELP scheme. Academics are not the most worldly of people and it is likely they will make some stupid decisions when it comes to paying for publication. Also it is likely that publishers, and brokers, will attempt to game the new system. http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2018/09/academic-open-access-publishing-needs.html -- Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP http://www.tomw.net.au +61(0)419496150 TomW Communications Pty Ltd. PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia Liability limited by a scheme approved under Prof. Standards Legislation Honorary Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian National University https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
