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Post Open Access Sting: An Interview With John Bohannon

One month since Science Magazine published its exposé on the lack of peer-review in, and deceptive business practices of, many open access journals, investigative reporter, John Bohannon, responds to critics.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Nov 12, 2013
  • 35 Comments

Open Access "Sting" Reveals Deception, Missed Opportunities

What can be learned from John Bohannon’s investigative study of open access publishers?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 4, 2013
  • 128 Comments

Is Access to the Research Paper the Same Thing as Access to the Research "Results"?

Is access to the research paper really the same thing as access to the research results themselves? Are funding agencies creating a false equivalency by confusing the two? And does this confusion favor researchers in some fields over others?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 6, 2013
  • 27 Comments

CC-Bye Bye! Some Consequences of Unfettered Reproduction Rights Become Clearer

Authors should not be surprised when their open access articles show up in surprising places. Is it possible to embrace open access with some restrictions?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 23, 2013
  • 33 Comments

PubMed Central Reduces Publisher Traffic, Study Shows

PubMed Central reduces article downloads from 14 biomedical society websites when articles are made freely available after embargo.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Apr 4, 2013
  • 20 Comments

Challenging the Access Crisis

A review of the literature shows that access conditions are getting better, not worse. So, why do we hear just the opposite?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 15, 2011
  • 23 Comments

Gaming the System: Do Promises of Citation Advantage Go Too Far?

Promises of more citations if authors pay are problematic in more ways than one.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 5, 2011
  • 10 Comments

Online Access and Citations — A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say

A study by two respected economists suggests it may be time to admit that we made a mistake attributing a citation advantage to open access articles.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 8, 2011
  • 10 Comments

Can Open Access Journals Guarantee Sound Methods?

Stating that open access journals publish papers with “sound methodologies” promotes an unrealistic view of the scientific process and a corrupted image of the editorial and peer-review process.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 19, 2010
  • 34 Comments

Rewriting the History of the Open Access Debate

A new review of the literature about open access’ effects on article citations attempts to rewrite the debate.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 11, 2010
  • 30 Comments

Does a Citation Advantage Exist for Mandated Open Access Articles?

A new article suggests that institutional self-archiving mandates may benefit authors . . . if you ignore some inconsistent and inconvenient results.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 7, 2010
  • 23 Comments

Challenging Assumptions on Open Access Cost Savings

European countries could save millions of Euros if they switched to open access publishing and self-archiving, a report suggests. But is this report based on valid assumptions?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 16, 2009
  • 4 Comments

Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars

Will $800 buy you a publication in a Bentham Science journal?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 10, 2009
  • 72 Comments

Framing the Open Access Debate

The debate over Open Access is not about science or economics but about core values and the language that embodies them.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 2, 2009
  • 7 Comments
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