[liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

[James Losey]

I think it's curious how this article frames the journals as "open access"
rather than a more appropriate "pay to play"

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>wrote:

> From: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html
>
> "The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called
> Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation
> to the leading professional association of scientists who study
> insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...."
>
> This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a
> newspaper story.
>
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> Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
> http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
> https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
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