Defining Platinum Open Access
Recently I used the term “platinum open access” in an email I sent to several scholarly communication listserves.
A platinum nugget.
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The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding
OMICS Group, the Hyderabad, India-based group of scholarly publishing-related companies, is expanding and now operates at least twelve publishing imprints...
The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor – Again
The troubled publication Scientific World Journal will once again lose its impact factor (this time for 2014), according to one Thomson Reuters...
Bogus British Company “Accredits” OMICS Conferences
Notorious open-access publisher OMICS International operates a scholarly conference division called Conference Series LLC. I learned recently that a London-based corporation called The CPD...
More Fringe Science from Borderline Publisher Frontiers
The scandal-plagued, Switzerland-based publisher Frontiers has just published a chemtrails conspiracy theory paper by the same author whose earlier article was published and then...
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2017
Each year at this time I formally announce my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the publisher list is now...
Scam Publisher OMICS International Buying Legitimate Journals
Hyderabad, India-based open-access publisher OMICS International is on a buying spree, snatching up legitimate scholarly journals and publishers, incorporating them into its...
Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal?
I am writing this blog post in hopes of starting a conversation in the scientific community about the medicine called...
Watch Out for Publishers with “Nova” in Their Name
Two unrelated publishers with the word “Nova” in their name have been bothering researchers with spam emails recently. One is...
More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI
Entropy is an open-access journal published by MDPI, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, based in Basel, Switzerland.
The journals were formerly published by...
