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Following the thread of the substantive academic issue through the links, https://predatoryjournals.com/about/ https://predatoryjournals.com/about/ https://ww
by everybodyknows 7y ago
Following the thread of the substantive academic issue through the links,
https://predatoryjournals.com/about/ https://predatoryjournals.com/about/
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-li...
We arrive at a 2013 essay by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall:
> To boost the open-access movement, its leaders sacrifice the academic futures of young scholars and those from developing countries, pressuring them to publish in lower-quality open-access journals
> The movement relies on unnatural mandates that take free choice away from individual researchers,
mandates set and enforced by an onerous cadre of Soros-funded European autocrats.
http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525/514
Still working on what to make of all this ...
- jhbadger 7y agoThe closed-access traditional publishing field fears the loss of their business model in favor of open access, in which researchers and the public can read articles without a paywall. To do this, they have tried to focus the attention of the public on low-end obscure open-access journals which they term "predatory journals" and hope that this discredits the idea of open access in general. The problem is that while bad open access journals certainly exist, so do bad closed-access journals.