What You Can Publish After a Shamectomy

The sleazy scientific publishing racket continues to plumb new depths in its well-provisioned submarine. Now comes word of "Stringer Open" - nope, not Springer Open, that one's a real publisher of real journals. This outfit is Stringer, which is a bit like finding a list of journals published by the American Comical Society. The ScholarlyOA blog noticed that the same person appears on multiple editorial boards across their various journals. When contacted, she turned out to be a secretary who's never heard of "Stringer". Class all the way. The journals themselves will be populated by the work of dupes and/or con artists - maybe some of those Chinese papers-for-rent can be stuffed in there to make a real lasagna of larceny out of the whole effort.

Source: In the Pipeline - December 3, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: The Scientific Literature Source Type: blogs