Research Guides: FLAN 650: Readings and Resources

Readings

Predatory Open Access Publishers
From the Scholarly Kitchen
Who's Afraid of Peer Review
Bohannon, John. "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" Science, vol. 342 (4 October 2013): 60-65.
The Annual Meeting
Mervis, Jeffrey. "The Annual Meeting: Improving What Isn't Broken." Science, vol. 342 (4 October 2013): 74-79
Unethical Practices Beall
Beall, Jeffrey. "Unethical Practices in Scholarly, Open-Access Publishing." Journal of Information Ethics, vol. 22, no.1 (Spring 2013): 11-20.
Increasing Embargoes
Sutton, Shan C. "Open Access, Publisher Embargoes, and the Voluntary Nature of Scholarship." C& RL News (Oct.ber 2013): 468-472.
Dark Side of Publishing
Butler, Declan. "The Dark Side of Publishing." Nature, vol. 495 (28 March 2013): 433-435
Some Research Wants to Be Free, Some Follows the Money
Millard, William B. "Some Research Wants to Be Free, Some Follows the Money." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 62, no. 2 (August 2013): 14A-20A
Scientific Articles Accepted
Kolata, Gina. "Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)." The New York Times, April 7, 2013.
The True Cost of Science Publishing
Van Noorden, Richard. "The True Cost of Science Publishing." Nature, vol. 495 (28 March 2013): 426-429.
Critique of Science Expose
Predatory Journals and Defective Peer Review
http://blo gs.lse.ac.uk/impacto fso cialsciences/2013/10/07/who s-afraid-o f-o pen-access/
Predatory Publishers and Opportunities for Scholarly Societies
Beall, Jeffrey. "Predatory Publishers and Opportunities for Scholarly Societies" In American Educational Resarch Association meeting, Washington, D.C., November 8-10, 2012. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]
Plagiarism and Predatory Publishing
Padua, Roberto N. "Plagiarism and Predatory Publishing." JPAIR Multidisciplinary Research, vol. 11 (January 2013): 1- 9.
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