Open Access advocates respond to Science article on Open Access Journals
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Open Access advocates have vigorously responded to a scathing article in Science criticizing Open Access journals.
At the forefront of the response:
- Heather Joseph, director of the Scholarly Publishing and Research Coalition (SPARC): Science Magazine's Open Access "Sting"
- Peter Suber, a philosopher who leads Open Access efforts at Harvard and internationally: New "sting" of weak open-access journals
- Michael Eisen, a scientist at UC Berkeley, and the co-founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals: I confess, I wrote the Arsenic DNA paper to expose flaws in peer-review at subscription based journals
- Here is a point-counterpoint between Michael Eisen and John Bohannan (writer of the controversial Science article slamming Open Access journals):
http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2013/10/live-chat-exploring-wild-west-open-access
Also available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQNyVHS6lqg#t=14 - Kevin Smith, J.D., Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University: The big picture about peer-review
