Comments on: Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars

By: Open access, peer review, grants and other academic conundrums

Open access, peer review, grants and other academic conundrums — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:07:35 +0000

[...] these journals claim to be peer-reviewed, their standards are suspect. In 2009, a nonsensical computer-generated spoof paper was accepted by a Bentham Journal (for [...]

By: BSP

BSP — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:32:04 +0000

Nice investigative work, Phil. Does anyone have evidence as to whether or not TJPLI is bogus: Tiberian Journal of Pharm and Lifescience Innovatives (TJPLI)?

By: >An Article from C.R.A.P. | Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:24:20 +0000

[...] Davis at The Scholarly Kitchen, in an attempt to test the reliability and integrity of open-access publishers, posed as an [...]

By: moonflowerdragon

moonflowerdragon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:59:42 +0000

I’m still a student but from the literature I’ve been reading it seems that the power you describe for librarians disappeared some years ago when academic libraries were pressured into all-or-nothing big bundle deals. Costs that exceeded value just meant consortium deals and cancelling subscriptions to smaller journals. In that sense the subscription model no longer empowers librarians it binds them.

I can indeed imagine a perhaps more diplomatically expressed letter with the gist you propose. If as you say a librarian might have responsibility for managing an OA author payment fund (I haven’t ready about this yet) I cannot imagine it being without criteria in place for how that would be done; not least of which would include evidence of the appropriateness of potential intended journals.

Academic freedom involves freedom to express ideas, not to be fiscally irresponsible. If a faculty member cannot, even with a librarian’s assistance find an appropriate open access journal willing to publish their paper, then an institutional repository or self-archive would still allow the freedom of expression without wasting money.

By: Blogging Dangerfield — When Will This Medium Get Some Respect? « The Scholarly Kitchen

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:22 +0000

[...] traditional or non-traditional, would likely be proud of — the Scholarly Kitchen unearthed a scandal serious enough to force an editor to resign; we’ve been nominated for a prestigious award and beat some very strong competition; our [...]

By: Peter Flynn

Peter Flynn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:55:31 +0000

I think the phrase should have been “content-free”, which is the document engineering term for “rubbish”.

By: Thursday Links | Alea

Thursday Links | Alea — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:46:44 +0000

[...] Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars [...]

By: Per Ola Kristensson

Per Ola Kristensson — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:03:41 +0000

[...] publishers spamming for book chapters and journal articles. Now I read that Phil Davis at the blog The Scholarly Kitchen sent a faked SCIgen-generated nonsense manuscript to the “The Open Information Science [...]

By: Live Blogging the Food Fight « The Scholarly Kitchen

Live Blogging the Food Fight « The Scholarly Kitchen — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:55:25 +0000

[...] by a computer (and consisting of complete nonsense) to Bentham . . . which accepted it. A blistering blog post about the experience, and a lot of press coverage, followed. Phil noted that it raised some issues of identity — [...]

By: The Methods Section » Blog Archive » Letting It All Hang Out: OpenSciNY

Tue, 18 May 2010 04:27:10 +0000

[...] a marketing tactic for publishers. In 2009, bloggers at the Scholarly Kitchen were able to get an extremely ridiculous article published in an open, “peer reviewed” electronic journal simply by paying for an Open Access [...]