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Ulli Weier Life Sciences Division
Open Access Publishing in the Life Sciences
It’s a jungle out there !
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Online Publishers
• Biomed Central – London, UK• Sage Publications USA, Thousand Oaks • Bentham - Dubai, U.A.E • Pagepress – Pavia, Italy • The Omics Group – West L.A., Sunnyvale
• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) ?• ……
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On-line publishing business models
• Open Access processing fee (ranging from $350 (Stem Cell Studies, Pagepress) or $450 (The Histochemical Journal, Sage Publ.) to $ 3600 (The Omics Group)
• No fee to publish, but Pay-per-View or access fee (Current Genomics, Bentham)
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• Fake Articles
• Fake Journals
• Fake Conferences
Fake Articles SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
Students at Sharif University get a paper accepted
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/
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http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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Generated by SCIgen, csail.mit
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 77(6), Dec 1999, 1121-1134
Fake Articles ?
Fake Journals ??
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Merck published fake journal - The Scientist - Magazine of the ...Apr 30, 2009 ... Well the truth behind this is questionable and since merck have found to published fake journals, I think the Gardsil vaccination to reduce ...www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55671/
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Fake conferences ??
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Some Suggestions
• Update ‘How to Publish at LBNL’
• Combine efforts of LBNL’s IT Dept., Berkeley Learning Institute (BLI) & the UCB campus to offer a course ‘Bioethics and the Need to Publish –
When Worlds Collide.’
• Blacklist publishers that do not follow acceptable standards.
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Thanks for your attention.
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