Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam

2011-10-31 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Michael Eisen mbei...@gmail.com wrote: M.E.: But if you're going to use the standard of email inboxes being filled with nonstop entreaties to pursue a path to open access, surely it is green OA that would suffer the most :-). S.H.: Mike, do you

Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam

2011-10-31 Thread Reme Melero
El 30/10/2011 17:03, Stevan Harnad escribió: Not only is it regrettable that OA is so unthinkingly identified in most people's minds exclusively with gold OA publishing, but this growing spate of relentless fool's-gold junk-OA spamming is now coalescing with that misconception -- and at the

Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam

2011-10-31 Thread Ept
Stevan says, 'Who cares if journals are unaffordable if we have access anyway? ' and that is the key to the debate. Ask researchers what aspect of OA is most important to their work and they always say, access to the latest developments in their area of research. Ask researchers in the developing

Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam

2011-10-31 Thread Dana Roth
Reme brings up an excellent, if unstated, point ... commercially published OA journals like commercially published subscription journals are the problem ... not the society/non-commercial OA and subscription journals.   Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd.