There is also an article in the Times Higher:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-ac
cess/2012238.article
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From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Dana Roth
Sent: 26 March 2014 19:48
To: Global
The latest in the series on Payment for Publication from the Australian Open
Access Support Group (AOASG) has gone live today.
Managing Article Processing Charges -
http://aoasg.org.au/managing-article-processing-charges/ considers how complex,
and deeply embedded in institutional administ
Forwarded from:
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/26/elseviergate-elsevier-is-still-charging-for-open-access-even-after-i-have-told-them-wellcome-should-take-them-to-court/
Elseviergate;
Elsevier is STILL charging for Open Access even after I have told them.
Wellcome should take them to cou
Hello all,
Thank you for the responses sent through to my specific question about a
particular publisher being identified as 'Australian'. It has sparked a
secondary discussion about the value or otherwise of locating a publisher in a
particular country - and the value judgements that might be
Beall's remark about the importance of the country where a publication
is located, if he is right, fully demonstrates how stupid the evaluation
process has become. The next step, I suppose, is to create a ranking of
countries and thus establish their status with regard to scientific
publishing. It
Of possible interest to members of this list:
Rome, March 24, 2014
Communiqué: Major repository infrastructure initiatives agree to align their
networks
In a meeting in Rome on March 20-21, 2014 representatives from several major
regional repository networks sat down to develop a strategy to b
Miguel,
That could be an interesting discussion. Is PLOS an US-American jornal? Are
Hindawi journals Egyptian and Copernicus journals German? What defines the
nationality of the journal? Seat of its publisher's office? Affiliation of the
editorial board? Affliation of its papers' authors? And w
Hello,
I do think that country of publication is important, it could be related to
academic research.
Have you tried contacting DOAJ? They use to be quite dilligent.
Miguel Navas-Fernández
http://orcid.org/-0002-5191-238X
https://twitter.com/miguelnavasf
PhD Researcher
Universitat de Barce
Danny,
I have been monitoring this publisher closely recently. I regularly receive
inquiries about it -- researchers asking me whether it is predatory or not.
I currently do not have it included on the list of predatory publishers.
Contrary to an opinion expressed earlier, for many, the country