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"an international association of about 100 scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishers, collectively responsible for more than 60% of the global annual output of research articles, over half the active research journals and the publication of tens of thousands of print and electronic books, reference works and databases."

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'However, scientists asked to comment on Williamson's theory were taken back by it and surprised it made it into such a prestigious journal. For example, from insect paleontologist Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.: "You're kidding!"'

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'A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencee makes the bizarre and completely unsupported claim that the two stages of the butterfly life cycle: caterpillar and volant adult, result from a hybridization event, with the caterpillar resulting from a butterfly mistakingly mating with an onycophoran (velvet worm).'

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'The change has been in the works for months, and the idea has been discussed longer than that. But the announcement comes at a time when the journal is under intense criticism for an article published last month -- via the route in which academy members can organize their own peer review panels -- claiming that caterpillars and butterflies do not have the same evolutionary history. Rather than viewing the butterfly and caterpillar as two life stages, the article views them as evidence of some sort of lasting mistake from a butterfly-like being accidentally mating with a worm at some point in the distant past.'

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'Scholars write articles to be read—the more access to their articles the better—so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access fee, would be an attractive competitor to traditional subscription-based journal publishing.'

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'The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds."'

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'On Monday, five leading universities announced a new "Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity" in which they have pledged to develop systems to pay open access journals for the articles they publish by the institutions' scholars. In doing so, the institutions are attempting to put to rest the idea that only older publication models (paid and/or print) can support rigorous peer review and quality assurance.
By embracing a new model, the institutions say, they hope to shift away from a system in which rising journal prices have frustrated librarians, and the lack of free access has frustrated those whose institutions can't afford many journals.'

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tracks key data for open access resources (open access journals, archives, items in archives) on a quarterly basis. This open data version (CC-BY-NC-SA) is complemented by quarterly commentary and supplemented with specialized data.

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'more than 4,000 fully open access, peer reviewed journals in DOAJ, growing by 2 titles per day; close to 1,500 open access repositories listed in OpenDOAR, adding a new repository every business day; over 30 million free publications through Scientific Commons, growing by more than 20 thousands items per day; more than 20% of the world's medical literature is freely available 2 years after publication, and close to 10% is freely available immediately on publication; 1 more journal decides to submit all or most content to PMC every business day, and growth of open access journals in PMC is one new journal every other business day.'

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"The article in question, published online by PNAS in July, claims that caterpillars and butterflies do not have the same evolutionary history. Rather than viewing the butterfly and caterpillar as two life stages, the article views them as evidence of some sort of lasting mistake from a butterfly-like being accidentally mating with a worm at some point in the distant past.
Most evolutionary scientists disagree with this view, and many were shocked and angered that a prominent journal published the piece. One scientist went so far as to wonder whether this paper was the worst paper of the year, and Scientific American wondered if the PNAS had been taken over by the National Enquirer. And The Times Higher raised questions about whether Margulis -- "a bigwig" -- had ushered "nonsense" into a top journal."

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'But what accounts for the increase in the proportion of scholarly journals now in the hands of the commercial publishers? One reason widely acknowledged is that commercial publishers have been better at innovation, identifying (and perhaps creating) new markets, and launching new titles. When higher education expanded quickly in the 1960s and 1970s and more money became available for research, it was mostly the commercial publishers, not the scholarly societies, that moved quickly to meet the new demand for publishing outlets. A second reason is that commercial publishers have actively encouraged the scholarly societies and other not-for-profit entities to relinquish their journals or at least enter into publishing contracts with them. Lacking the technical expertise, the capital, and the economies-of-scale of the commercial publishers, many scholarly societies and others have found such offers congenial, particularly as journal delivery began to move online.'

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"Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook."

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"Elsevier officials said Monday that it was a mistake for the publishing giant's marketing division to offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who would give a new textbook five stars in a review posted on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. While those popular Web sites' customer reviews have long been known to be something less than scientific, and prone to manipulation if an author has friends write on behalf of a new work, the idea that a major academic publisher would attempt to pay for good reviews angered some professors who received the e-mail pitch."

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"News last week that a hoax article was accepted by a purportedly peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by Bentham Science has led to a resignation by the journal’s editor-in-chief as well as a call for ethical practices by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which does not count Bentham as a member."

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"Considering that the Cornell University Library spends nearly $18 million dollars on collections, $50K seems like pocket change. From an management standpoint, it may take much more that $50K in staff and faculty time to administrate and process author charges one article at a time.
This would lead a skeptic to question why such funds are necessary if there is little demand, especially at a time when libraries are asked to make deep cuts in both their staff and existing journal subscriptions. Of course, low demand may not be the future for author publishing funds, and this is where governance becomes a significant issue. "

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"But public accountability also requires that institutions be transparent in how they budget and allocate their taxpayer funds. Library Open Access policies cannot exist with secret budgets, ambiguous guidelines, and a practice of stonewalling requests for information."

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"While the paper they accepted was laughably nonsensical and there was no evidence of peer-review, the most salient communication we received from them around the paper they accepted was the invoice.
And this invoice begins the real story here.
It’s important that everyone in academic publishing realize there is a feeder issue at play — the swelling pools of author-pays funding, how they’re being managed, and policies around their use."

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'In an Open Access (OA) version of the 1996 Sokal affair, when a hoax article was accepted by an academic journal, Cornell University librarian and graduate student Phil Davis successfully submitted a manuscript full of gibberish and credited to pseudonymous authors at The Center for Research in Applied Phrenology to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ), which “claims to enforce peer-review.”'

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'Since word of Elsevier's publication of a "fake" journal sponsored by pharmaceutical company Merck spread last week, the company acknowledged the publication of five more journals with similar undisclosed sponsorship between 2000 and 2005. (This publication and Elsevier have the same parent company, Reed Elsevier.)'

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