Blacklists bad, thinking good. Cabell’s has launched a successor to Beall’s List – a new blacklist of ‘predatory publishers’. I can’t comment on it in any detail because its subscription…
Month: July 2017
A colleague asked me today if I considered a journal that asked for copyright transfer to a publisher to be Open Access. It’s a good question: by transferring copyright from…
One of the parts of the solution to the currently broken system of scholarly publication are layer journals. The problem is the deluge of papers, combined with multidisciplinarity, means there…
Piers Locke is a Canterbury colleague with a progressive approach to scholarly publication. I like him, and not just because he’s inordinately fond of elephants (but that certainly helps). He…
A short video from Open Repositories 2017, where I describe the University of Canterbury’s Open Access “Lightweight Publishing Model”. We use our institutional repository as the back end to host…
You should never pay to read or to publish primary research. Scholarly publishing is in a bind. In trying to move a business model from being subscription based ‘back loaded'(paying…