[Air-L] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

[michael gurstein]

Publishing may be dirt cheap but any systematic/formal e.g. academic
publishing isn't free... So the problem is that while there is a necessary
and valuable shift from commercial publishing (and outrageous profiteering)
to open access online publishing there really aren't any good business
models yet to cover the (much less but not totally trivial) costs of the new
forms of academic publishing.  

If for whatever reason (and there are lots including the issues pointed to
here) one doesn't want to go to a pay for play model that leaves
advertising(???) or donations (???) or...

M

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Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:38 AM
To: Nathaniel Poor
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] For everyone and their grad students: Fake,
pay-to-publish journals & conferences

How long till someone marries up the PGP Web-of-Trust and LinkedIn and ISI
impact factors / JCR and some other social media data to vet conferences as
reputable or not?

Imagine cryptographically signing that you were at a conference and found it
viable as a real academic interaction - or not.  And being able to mark as
trusted/invalidating other people's evaluations of events.

And imagine how little time it would take for people to start trying to game
such a system.  ;-)

best,

--e




On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-w
> orld-of-pseudo-academia.html
>
> "The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called
> Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation 
> to the leading professional association of scientists who study 
> insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...."
>
> This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a 
> newspaper story.
>
> -------------------------------
> Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
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