[Air-L] Elsevier and peer review

Zach McDowell zmcdowell at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 05:50:56 PST 2016 

Thanks David for being so succinct.

You're absolutely right there - there are many predatory practices that are
part of these "pains" - there are numerous OA journals that do not have
these practices, and they should be lauded while the others shamed. DOAJ is
a great place to start, but it might be interesting if there was a
repository of OA shaming somewhere (although something tells me someone has
this already) to help align our goals. Its unfortunate about Andrew's
wife's story, but this is exactly the evidence we need to help configure
what journals are best to not only publish in, but also assist in peer
review. Personally I will only peer review for platinum OA journals now,
just because if I'm going to give away my time, I expect others to have
easy access to it.

As David mentioned, Elsevier is notoriously against OA and its very
problematic. We will see if SSRN responds, I've written them both in their
feedback section and to support at ssrn.com

best,

Zach

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Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
www.zachmcdowell.com

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:43 AM, David Stodolsky <dss at secureid.net> wrote:

>
> > 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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