Scholarly communication reformers and critics recently learned of another way in which the for-profit, toll access journal system has become significantly corrupted when media reports revealed that the giant publishing firm Elsevier has been publishing fake medical journals at the behest of large pharmaceutical firms including Merck. While those concerned with the corporate enclosure of [...]
Entries from June 2009
Does your publisher also issue fake journals?
June 7th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: Economic Issues · Elsevier · Fraud · Integrity · Legal Issues
10 Publishers Moving in the Right Direction
June 4th, 2009 1 Comment
There is way more relevant news from the world of scholarly communications than any of us can keep up with. Thankfully Open Access News does an amazing job of flagging tons of important items for our consideration. A recent bit of news that I was especially glad to see was the pro-OA statement offered by [...]
Tags: Announcements · Links · OA Journal News · OA Journals · Openness · SHERPA "Green" · University Presses
New Updated Directory of Open Access Anthropology Journals
June 2nd, 2009 No Comments
As we were celebrating on May first this year our first Open Access Anthropology Day, Lorenz made a great contribution by gathering many, if not all, the updated OAA Journals. You can read the post, which Lorenz wrote here, and if you would like to add other OAAJ, which are not listed in the page [...]
Tags: Announcements · OA Journals