[Wikimedia-l] (semi-OT) Open access "catastrophic" for Elsevier

[David Gerard]

On 22 September 2012 20:24, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's such a pity that Elsevier's attempt to legally block open access
> requirements [1] means that they must be destroyed utterly with not


Of course, it's not all happy bunnies and rainbows and unicorns on the
OA side. There's an obvious predatory model, and of course people
trying it. Achal Prabhala pointed out this (excellent) article to me:

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/on-the-net-a-scam-of-a-most-scholarly-kind/article3939161.ece

I wrote up another example here:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bentham_Science_Publishers

See also:

http://metadata.posterous.com/83235355
https://www.facebook.com/POA.Publishers#


- d.