KnowledgeCuddle …. Really?
This past week I added a publisher called KnowledgeCuddle Publication to my list. The publisher’s name is silly and unprofessional, more evidence of scholarly open-access publishing’s decline into absurdity.
At the same time, two U.S. universities implemented strong open-access policies, policies their faculties will be pressured to follow and submit to.
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Green open access
I think that using the green open-access publishing model is better for authors and readers than publishing in a predatory or questionable open-access journal. Green open-access refers to publishing in a non-open-access journal and then uploading a postprint of the article to an institutional or disciplinary repository.
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Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Published by UNESCO.
Swan, Alma. (2012). Policy guidelines for the promotion of open access. (Open guidelines series). Paris: UNESCO. ISBN: 978-92-3-001052-2 Available: http://bit.ly/LXaiKK
This is a book about using mandates and sanctions to promote open-access publishing. Read the rest of this entry »
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