Strategies for success:Open access publishing

Dr Siouxsie Wiles

Strategies for success:Open access publishing

#OAStratus

A network of emerging and early career researchers formally launched in April 2008

Aims:

• To identify and address issues of importance to emerging scientists

• To provide a network of support for emerging scientists• To raise to the profile of emerging scientists and

science

www.stratus.ac.nz

Predatory open access

“…unprofessionally exploit the author-pays

model of open-access publishing for their

own profit.”

‘Vanity publishing’

http://scholarlyoa.com/about/

Predatory open accessSpam professional email lists

Low article acceptance threshold

False or non-existent peer review

Publishing articles without complete

author approval

Inflating impact factors by rewarding

authors for citing papers

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/10/09/oa-publisher-offers-author-fee-waivers-in-exchange-for-citing-its-journals/

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

http://www.scirp.org/journal/apm/

http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102

Professor Marcie RathkeUniversity of Southern North Dakota at Hoople

http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102

http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/

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http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/