"Librarians Rally Behind Blogger [Librarian at McMaster] Sued by Publisher Over Critical Comments"

[Glen Newton]

Slightly off topic.

The liibrarian is at McMaster University
http://chronicle.com/article/Librarians-Rally-Behind/137329/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en


-Glen

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[Russell McOrmond]

On 13-02-15 07:57 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
> Slightly off topic.
>
> The liibrarian is at McMaster University
> http://chronicle.com/article/Librarians-Rally-Behind/137329/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

  I wish the educational sector would more quickly move to OA and put
these dinosaurs out of their misery once and for all.

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[Heather Morrison-2]

The Chronicle article also discusses the suit against Jeffrey Beall, author of a list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers".

Beall's list can be found here:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

This list is long and growing rapidly. My point is that open access does not resolve this problem. If anything, the ease of entry in publishing and the article processing fee model appear to attract a number of new publishers of a very wide range of quality and ethics.

The list comes with a very clear set of criteria for inclusion - the following few selected excerpts  illustrate the extent and nature of the problem, as this list was developed in response to actual reported OA publisher practices:

Excerpts from Beall's criteria:

"Evident data exist showing that the editor and/or review board members do not possess academic expertise to reasonably qualify them to be publication gatekeepers in the journal’s field."

"The journals...have concocted editorial boards (made up names), include scholars on an editorial board without their knowledge or permission"

"The publisher sends spam requests for peer reviews to scholars unqualified to review submitted manuscripts."

Comment: taking reasonable measures to ensure quality and accuracy of scholarly information is essential to advancing knowledge. Beall's work is an important contribution to scholarship.

best,

Heather Morrison


On 2013-02-15, at 6:51 AM, Russell McOrmond wrote:

> On 13-02-15 07:57 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
>> Slightly off topic.
>>
>> The liibrarian is at McMaster University
>> http://chronicle.com/article/Librarians-Rally-Behind/137329/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
>
>  I wish the educational sector would more quickly move to OA and put
> these dinosaurs out of their misery once and for all.
>
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[Russell McOrmond]

On 13-02-15 01:02 PM, Heather Morrison wrote:
> The Chronicle article also discusses the suit against Jeffrey Beall,
> author of a list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory
> scholarly open-access publishers".

  I guess this suggests that "OA" can't be used as a substitute for a
longer description of what I meant.

  These are still third-party publishers, not part of credentialed
institutions themselves (or a body created from multiple academic
institutions).  Moving from royalty-funded publishing to other business
models doesn't solve the problem the article referenced, but
institutions moving from using third-party publishers to internalizing
this function would.

  Ehat I intended to be a short remark about third-party publishes
taking on academics seemed not to have worked.  As long as the
publishing part of academia is handled by organizations outside of
academia, these types of conflicts are inevitable.

This is obviously off-topic for civicaccess...



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