Jeff, Is this a ‘growing pain’ of the OA field? Fake OA journals publish plagiarized crap, and then get hit with takedown notices. Trying to cut their losses, they switch to toll access, destroying their one sure way of making money. As a toll access journal, they are not different (in terms of business model) from the several other genuine ones, rendering the fake ones out of business. The one downside to this is the loss of reputation for OA as a viable publishing model.
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