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

[Richard Brooks]

It's not curious. It is accurate. As the funding model
moved from subscribers paying for access to authors
paying for publication, the financial incentives
changed as well. The loosening of standards is an
obvious consequence of this decision.

The question of how best to publish quality academic
information is non-trivial. Like the question of where
to get quality current affairs information. It will
take a while for things to adjust to the ability of
the Internet to make publishing dirt-cheap.

On 04/08/2013 12:19 PM, James Losey wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:companys at stanford.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     From: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com <mailto: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.
> 
>     -------------------------------
>     Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
>     http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
>     https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
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