<div dir="ltr">A story on the front page of the New York Times a few days ago cleverly smeared open access scholarly publishing as somehow responsible for the rise of low-quality, pseudo-academic conferences and OA journals. <br>
<br>The piece noted a mini-trend of hustlers announcing conferences and open access journals that trade on the names of respected conferences and journals – and then charging academics high fees to participate in a process of dubious scientific value. Such scams represent “the dark side of open access,” according to the article by Times science reporter Gina Kolata.<br>
<a href="http://bollier.org/blog/did-commercial-journals-use-nyt-smear-open-access-0">http://bollier.org/blog/did-commercial-journals-use-nyt-smear-open-access-0</a></div>