RE: OASPA welcomes Phil Davis's exercise

["Joseph Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

I really think this is too harsh. There is a place for open 
access publications, and there is a place for author-pays open 
access publications. While OA material, and author-pays in 
particular, are subject to some of the corruptive tendencies you 
delineate, some publications are carefully and responsibly 
managed.

Joe Esposito

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Subject: Re: OASPA welcomes Phil Davis's exercise

The 'prank' exercise makes plain what anyone with a grain of common sense
realises, that plenty of OA journals will be full of junk science; at worst,
a sweet racket between 'publishers' who will accept any paper so long as a
cheque comes with it, and academics who want another publishing credit at
any price, or are just gullible. Author pays was broadly driven out about 30
years ago, it was so obviously a bad and stupid idea. That people are
seriously considering reintroducing it beggars belief.

Bill Hughes
Director Multi-Science Publishing