[Air-L] Elsevier and peer review

[David Stodolsky]

> On 29 Dec 2016, at 12.38, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:
> 
> Sharon
> 
> Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list.  This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in.  This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter.

Open Access (OA) journals can be as good as any journals.
However, there are a plenty of predatory journals set up merely to extract cash from researchers.
See below for info on ways to avoid trouble.

Elsevier is one of biggest opponents of OA and especially any change in scientific publishing that could undermine the exploitive monopoly they now run.
In Germany and several other countries, research establishments have declared they will boycott Elsevier, if monopoly behavior doesn’t cease.


dss


David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
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> Subject: The RW Daily: Researchers retract Nature Materials paper for irreproducibility; EMBO journals issue partial retractions
> Date: 29 December 2016 at 13.00.05 GMT+1
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