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The OA Interviews: Sciyo's Aleksandar Lazinica
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| In their efforts to derail the onward march of
| Open Access (OA) opponents have conjured up a
| number of bogeymen about Open Access
| publishing. First, they maintain, asking
| authors to pay to publish could turn scholarly
| publishing into a vanity press. Second, they
| say, OA publishing will in any case inevitably
| lead to lax or even non-existent peer review.
| Third, they argue, OA publishing is not
| financially sustainable. I felt the breath of
| all three bogeymen on the back of my neck
| recently, as I conducted an email interview
| with the CEO of OA publisher Sciyo, Aleksandar
| Lazinica â an interview that led the Open
| Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
| to ask Sciyo to remove OASPA's logo from its
| web site.
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| At the heart of the criticism deployed against
| OA publishing is the claim that levying an
| article processing charge (APC) on authors will
| inevitably corrupt the age-old process of
| scholarly publishing, and the independent peer
| review system on which it is based.
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/02/oa-interviews-sciyo-aleksandar-lazinica.html
The BOAI is eight
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| Happy birthday to the Budapest Open Access
| Initiative, which is eight years old today.
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2010/02/boai-is-eight.html
Recent:
Don't restrict the flow of technical knowledge
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| Iâm a member of two IEEE societies that
| publish IEEE Transactions. While most of
| the papers are rather scholarly, I
| sometimes run across one that Iâd like to
| summarize and provide a link for readers to
| download the original paper. That happened
| recently. Knowing that IEEE forbids third
| parties such as T&MW from posting IEEE
| copyrighted work (I can live with that), I
| contacted one of the paperâs authors asking
| if he would post his paper and Iâll link to
| it.
|
| The author agreed to post his paper, but
| heâs not a member of that IEEE society and
| thus he had no way to download his own
| work. That in itself is inexcusable, but it
| gets worse.
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http://www.tmworld.com/blog/Rowe_s_and_Columns/30177-Don_t_restrict_the_flow_of_technical_knowledge.php
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