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Comment on New OA Publisher Aims to Compete with Preprint Servers by Dom

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I had one of these emails informing me that my article was now available! I had published it a year earlier in BMC Biology (proper OA, decent impact factor), so I was a little surprised and worried that someone was apparently ‘republishing’ my paper.

I questioned these guys and when pushed they removed my article – its already freely available where I chose to publish it. I would be interested to see how many other harvested articles have, or could be removed on author request.

Although not the arguments I used to have my article removed, the following bothered me:

(1) the article looked as if ScienceOpen had published it (unless you look carefully).

(2) it was then being used as a marketing tool for their publishing activity – mixing, in the same email, “we’ve archived your freely available paper” with “we can publish your next paper (for profit)”.

The slick video where one of them talks about enjoying ‘working with scientists’ made me smile as it does not seem to fit a model where they ‘help themselves’ to work without asking. The first is a two sided concept (collaboration) while the second is very one sided.


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