The following article appeared in Nature, and I made a long response to it on the Australian OA Community email list, I thought I’d repost it here. Predatory journals: no…
Category: open access mumbles
I wrote about Plan S when it first came out. I was so pleased to see something with a real timeline, that addressed the right issues (moving to real OA,…
Note: this is an opinion, and I’d be glad of research that proves me wrong. Or right. That would be nice too. In talking with researchers about OA for the…
This is a comment on the recent insightful piece on Research Gate in Inside Higher Education I try to look at these companies through the lens of what we know…
Recently I’ve been feeling uninspired about Open Access. We have the same discussions, preach to the converted, and there was a sense that perhaps things had plateaued. And then came…
When I first started the job I’m in, my first librarian job, and it has a large component of encouraging Open Access for my community, I went around online asking…
I’m starting a new series, the NZ Journal Hall of Shame. This is to highlight NZ academic journals the a haven’t either thought of the option of Open Access, or…
I wrote last about the problem of getting false positive plagiarism results when submitting articles – where students have articles rejected because they match their theses. That all worked out…
Recently the worst thing happened. We heard of two articles, from the same author, rejected in two Elsevier journals because they were too similar to their thesis. We’ve strongly argued…
NB – at the time of writing I didn’t realise that Chealsye worked for Ubiquity. They are cool though. aa As the inevitable occurs and Open Access becomes the norm,…