Publishing Viewed from Santa's Crystal Ball
Some predictions about the future of scholarly publishing, which acknowledges the continuing central role of the major STM publishers.
Why E-books Are Turning the Library and Publishing Worlds Upside Down
[…] possible and the transition to e-reading remains manageable. Even as they do so, Amazon is being accused of being “ predatory,” turning publishers’ knuckles white as they hold on for the ride. Demand is outstripping supply in a world where […]
Scientific Publishing in a Time of Political Assaults
[…] as part of the same team. From being portrayed as exploitative with copyright and financial models, to the inability to stop predatory publishers, to being slow to get in front of the rise in volume and costs created by emerging scientists in […]
Guest Post — Could AI Help Fix Peer Review, or Will it Only Make Things Worse?
[…] by these submissions. I don’t think they’re intended to be read, just published and used for statistics. Parallel this with predatory journals that exist by charging authors large fees to publish their paper, but have poor quality control and a […]
Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2022 Mean to You?
[…] problems in the industry is something that we sometimes forget when we become focused on specific issues, whether it’s on predatory journals, how to develop better workflow techniques, or customer service. Attending SSP is a reminder that we are not […]
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
[…] foundational ethos of free sharing led web companies to devise business models that are now seen as both deceptive and predatory.” To be clear, he’s not talking about predatory/deceptive journals here; he’s talking about Facebook and Google, which operate on […]
ACRL 2019: Recasting the Narrative
[…] particularly appreciative of the qualitative data that they report in Black & White Response in a Gray Area: Faculty and Predatory Publishing. Given the many views pro/con related to journal blacklists, I’m interested in the reaction to their paper [PDF], particularly […]
Guest Post: MLA InSight — How to Buy Whisky
[…] as possible? How can we simplify the authentication process to encourage users to access the legal version? Disorienting Dilemma #4: Predatory publishers are taking advantage of a shifting open access landscape To the untrained eye, predatory journals can sometimes be […]
"Predatory" Open Access Publishers — The Natural Extreme of an Author-Pays Model
A profile of predatory author-pays OA publishers pulls a punch or two, but reveals that all models have extremes. What we do to make these extremes truly marginal and unacceptable is a larger question.
Guest Post – GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned?
[…] publishers do? First, it is crucial to recognize that: Large parts of academia run on publish-or-perish mode Paper mills and predatory journals are not going away English language dominates the academic and scientific discourse GPT-3 and other AI models are […]
Think. Check. Submit. (How to Have Trust in Your Publisher.)
[…] work for TBI Communications which is managing the campaign.) Why? The campaign reflects substantial concern in the information community about “ predatory” publishers, and is a timely addition to other efforts such as the Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources. Its launch coincides […]
Guest Post — Is Science Too Slow to Change the World?
[…] hinders scientific progress in some disciplines. Today, the pressure to publish contributes to research misconduct. It leaves people vulnerable to predatory journals, and it even means that a researcher’s priorities might shift from cutting-edge science to publishable science. Emerging technology, […]
Guest Post — Bringing Diverse Perspectives into Scholarly Marketing and Communications: Calls to Action towards Global Outreach for Global Change Part 1
COVID-19 and the anti-racist movement are driving publishers to respond to and engage with readers in new and innovative ways but will these continue? This two-part guest post by Kasia Repeta features calls to action from across the publishing community.
Turning a Critical Eye on Reference Lists
[…] for publishing papers in journals that have strong citation performances. Recently, a debate started around the role that so-called “ predatory journals” play in this vicious citation game. Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek published an article about pharmaceutical companies using Omics, a journal […]
Project Cupcake: Designing a New Type of Journal Metric.
[…] Most readers of this blog will be aware of the work of Jeffrey Beall in introducing us to the term predatory publishing and his popular, but controversial, blog that listed suspected bad actors, also known as a blacklist. Many researchers make use […]