[Irtalk] Did Commercial Journals Use the NYT to Smear Open Access? | David Bollier

[Hilton Gibson]

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.

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.
http://bollier.org/blog/did-commercial-journals-use-nyt-smear-open-access-0
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