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    Dalla Lista IFLA.<br>
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    Saluti,<br>
    mauro guerrini<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 14/08/2012 05:11, Stephen B. Alayon
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        <div><span>Apologies for cross-posting. This might be of
            interest to you.<br>
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          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://the-scientist.com/2012/08/01/predatory-publishing/">http://the-scientist.com/2012/08/01/predatory-publishing/</a><br>
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          thank you and regards,<br>
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          stephen<br>
           
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          Predatory Publishing
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              <div>Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an
                exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of
                scholarly publishing.</div>
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          <div> <b>By Jeffrey Beall | August 1, 2012</b> </div>
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            Predatory publishers use deception to appear legitimate,
            entrapping researchers into submitting their work and then
            charging them to publish it. <span class="st_email"></span></div>
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          <div><span class="dropcap">A</span> great upheaval is
            occurring in scholarly publishing. Over the past 10 years,
            researchers, academics, and academic librarians have been
            promoting open-access publishing, and we are just now
            beginning to see the results of their advocacy, which
            unfortunately are way below expectations.</div>
          <div>One result is that the open-access movement is producing
            an almost boomtown-like increase in the number of scholarly
            open-access publishers, fostered by a very low barrier to
            entrance into the learned publishing industry. To become a
            scholarly publisher, all you need now is a computer, a
            website, and the ability to create unique journal titles.</div>
          <div>Bolstering this trend is the so-called “gold open-access”
            model, in which publishing is supported not by subscription
            fees but by author fees. An example of a gold open-access
            journal is <i>The Scientific World Journal</i>,<i> </i>currently

            published by Cairo-based Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
            This megajournal covers virtually all scientific fields and
            imposes an article processing charge of $1,000 for each
            accepted article. Similarly, the better-known <i>Public
              Library of Science </i>(<i>PLoS</i>)<i> </i>journals
            charge authors anywhere from $1,350 to $2,900 to publish,
            with a discount if the researcher is affiliated with a
            university that is an institutional member.</div>
          <div>This increase in the number of open-access journals has
            major implications for scholarly publishing. Authors become
            the publishers’ customers, an arrangement that creates a
            conflict of interest: the more papers a publisher accepts,
            the more revenue it earns.</div>
          <div>Not surprisingly, acceptance rates at gold open-access
            journals are skyrocketing, and article peer review is
            decreasing. Scholarly communication is now flooded with
            hundreds of thousands of new, second-rate articles each
            year, burdening conscientious researchers who have to sort
            through them all, filtering out the unworthy ones.</div>
          <div>Exploiting the trend is an increasing number of what I
            define as “predatory” publishers—those that unprofessionally
            exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit.
            These publishers use deception to appear legitimate,
            entrapping researchers into submitting their work and then
            charging them to publish it. Some prey especially on junior
            faculty and graduate students, bombarding them with spam
            e-mail solicitations. Harvesting data from legitimate
            publishers’ websites, they send personalized spam, enticing
            researchers by praising their earlier works and inviting
            them to submit a new manuscript. Many of these bogus
            publishers falsely claim to enforce stringent peer review,
            but it appears they routinely publish article manuscripts
            upon receipt of the author fee. Some have added names to
            their editorial boards without first getting permission from
            the scientists they list, among other unethical practices.</div>
          <div>These publishers’ websites look legitimate, making it
            difficult to separate the professional from the unethical.
            Unfortunately, many scientists have been fooled. Dozens have
            asked me for a measure for determining legitimacy, but there
            is very little that can be measured directly. The only real
            measure is the publisher’s intent, which is hard or
            impossible to discern.</div>
          <div>The implications for tenure and promotion are
            significant. Previously, traditional publishers played a
            validation role: if an article appeared in a journal of a
            respected publisher, generally everyone accepted it as
            quality work worthy of publication. Now, predatory
            publishers assign lofty titles to their journals, making the
            task of judging a tenure candidate’s list of publications
            much more complicated. Sadly, a few academics are gaming the
            new system, exploiting the scholarly vanity press to buy
            prestige.</div>
          <div>Predatory open-access publishers threaten to erase the
            line that divides science from nonscience. By accepting
            pseudoscientific articles that outwardly appear legitimate
            but whose methodologies are unsound, bogus publishers
            gratuitously confer the imprimatur of science. As this trend
            continues, we may lose the ability to easily separate the
            real science from the fake.</div>
          <div>The problems these predatory publishers cause have been
            worsened by several of the players in the open-access
            movement. Many academic librarians and other open-access
            advocates have promoted open-access scholarly publishing
            across the board, without limiting their promotion to the
            few worthy open-access publishers, thus creating a more
            fertile ground for predatory publishers. Librarians and
            open-access advocates have also spent much time and effort
            denouncing—and even cyberbullying—traditional scholarly
            publishers, a practice that regrettably has further enabled
            the growth of illegitimate open-access publishers. Some even
            insist on open-access mandates, rules that would require
            researchers to publish all their work in open-access venues,
            thereby depriving them of the freedom to publish in the
            venue of their choosing and serving to further energize the
            exploitative open-access publishers.</div>
          <div>Open-access enthusiasts are too quick to dismiss
            traditional scholarly publishers. They have overly
            politicized scholarly communication, applying their
            anticorporate beliefs and tactics to learned publishing.
            Many have abandoned objectivity; instead of seeking the best
            model for scholarly communication, they seek only the <i>au
              courant</i> one that fits their narrow beliefs.</div>
          <div>Many open-access advocates fail to understand or
            recognize the value that high-quality publishing adds to
            scholarly content. One of these values is digital
            preservation, or the long-term maintenance of journal
            articles and other research output. Most of the new
            open-access publishers have no long-term preservation
            strategies, instead choosing to operate in the moment.
            Furthermore, some open-access publishers now bypass the
            copyediting process. In addition to deteriorating article
            quality, these practices perpetuate the problem of
            increasing plagiarism, as these journals rarely use the
            available tools that can detect overlap between submitted
            and published works.</div>
          <div>Thus, while open-access publishing has some obvious
            advantages—namely making scientific research freely
            available to all that seek it—there are many other factors
            to be considered. (For a more complete discussion of these
            considerations, see “Whither Science Publishing” on page
            32.) A publication model that has authors rather than
            readers as its customers is still unproven and risky in the
            long term. Scholarly communication needs more unbiased
            analysis and less ideology. The publishing model that we
            bequeath to the next generation of researchers needs to be
            the best one, and not necessarily the ideologically correct
            one.</div>
          <div><b><i>Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the
                University of Colorado Denver’s Auraria Library. Read
                more about scholarly open-access publishing on his blog,
              </i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://scholarlyoa.com/">Scholarly Open Access</a><i>.</i></b></div>
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          <h3>Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers</h3>
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              href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/">http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/</a></div>
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          <div>This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access
            publishers.  I recommend that scholars not do any business
            with these publishers, including submitting articles,
            serving as editors or on editorial boards, or advertising
            with them. Also, articles published in these publishers’
            journals should be given extra scrutiny in the process of
            evaluation for tenure and promotion.</div>
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