Scholarly Open Access. Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals January 15, 2013 Template city We recently learned of the launch of one of the largest scholarly open-access publishers.
It’s called Academic and Scientific Publishing, and it launched with an amazing 355 journal titles. Read the rest of this entry » Another publisher accuses a librarian of libel. With the proliferation of scholarly journals – particularly open-access Internet journals that charge author fees – some librarians consider themselves on the front lines of the fight to preserve quality publishing.
The weapon of choice for some, including Jeffrey Beall, associate professor and scholarly initiatives librarian at the University of Colorado Denver? The blog. But some publishers have taken up their own arms – including threats of lawsuits – in defense, raising questions about academic freedom and librarians in the Internet age. Via its lawyer earlier this month, the Canadian Center for Science and Education, publisher of numerous open-access journals charging several-hundred dollar author fees, sent a letter to Beall informing him that his inclusion of the company and several of its products on a list of a possible-to-probable “predatory” journals on his blog amounted to defamation and libel.
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