[Irtalk] How Do We Address the Continuing Problem of Inadequate and Deceptive Publishing Practices? | The Scholarly Kitchen

[Hilton Gibson]

*Now, 20 years on, we find ourselves with an OA environment known as much
for inadequate and exploitative publishing practices as for any increase in
access*; with a growing number of retractions; and with experiments that
purposely push normal controls to the side in order to increase the
throughput of the system.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/05/12/how-do-we-address-the-continuing-problem-of-inadequate-and-deceptive-publishing-practices

*​In my opinion this is why academic libraries should become the trusted
open scholarly communication publishers and nobody else.​ There are
exceptions but they should be exceptions.*
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