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It’s not just the scammers, BE Press went “closed access” and now MANY authors are pissed off, e.g., http://www.digitopoly.org/2012/01/26/berkeley-electronic-press-closes-up-journals/
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[...] expectations for LAP Lambert. The top results on a Google search included articles titled “Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid,” “Why You Shouldn’t Publish with Lap Lambert,” and my...
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Ken, you are the first person that I have read about that actually attended one of their conferences. Which conferences did you attend? They were actually conducted? What about cancellations? Dr. E.
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I cannot agree more with Dr. Beall. If open access is a boon forthose who want to do research , it could (and in fact is) used by bogus reserachers and editors to plagiarize and get credit for what...
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Isn’t it probable that open access publishing allows an increased detection of misconduct? If the three papers were published in obscure subscription-based journals, what are the chances that you or...
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Author misconduct is the logical consequence of poor or nonexistent peer review. One can observe a similar negative selection effect on the viXra repository, an alternative to arXiv without endorsement...
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Open access publishing adds transparency to the published literature: it does in fact increases the rate of *detection* of author misconduct. That has been noted already several years ago, e.g. Lin,...
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Yes and no… For example, the 2 groups of authors: 1) Scholars that publish questionable material 2) Low level scholars that would otherwise be difficult to publish Scholars that engage in unethical...
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Of course you’re right Dr Beal. It’s a no brainer. Most OA follows an author pays model. The old name for author pays was vanity publishing.
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Agree with Geoffrey Beal. However, given the seriousness of the statements, I think that adding quantification will greatly add to the discussion. For instance, are self plagiarism more frequent in...
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Actually most OA journals do not use an author pay model. There is no complete list of all OA journals but the most comprehensive list is the DOAJ. I just downloaded the complete metadata and only 28%...
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Reblogged this on <a href="http://phinsight.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/does-scholarly-open-access-publishing-increase-author-misconduct/" rel="nofollow">public health insight</a>.
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[...] that are vanity publishers. Given that some startup publishers are predatory in nature (see also Beall’s List of Predatory Open Access Journal Publishers), this can be a very useful [...]
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by David Gurarie
Jeff, thanks for your important public service. Profit driven business has the power to corrupt, and scientific publishing is no exception. Your list should be a wake up call to bring order and...
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[...] 18 of the potential plagiarism by University of Colorado, Denver librarian Jeffrey Beall, who first wrote about Neil’s paper in The Journal of Academic and Business Ethics in late February. What...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
No. The one you saw, <em>Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering</em>, is published by Science and Engineering Publishing Company, not by the publisher called Frontiers. All of Science and...
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No this publisher is not on my list. Sorry, I don’t know about their relationship with PMC.
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It is shocking. Why is Lap Lambert cheating on Books?
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I was pleased to read this thread. Recently one of the Bitconferences made it onto an official Government of Canada list of approved conferences and someone in Ottawa invested some time in trying to...
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