The 'pay-to-publish' model should be abolished

Notes and Records

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 403-404

  Gadagkar, Raghavendra ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STANDARDS;

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SCIENCE;

EID: 84994588827     PISSN: 00359149     EISSN: 17430178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2016.0039     Document Type: Note

References (3)

1. Raghavendra Gadagkar, 'Open-access more harm than good in developing world', Nature 453, 450 (2008);
2. Raghavendra Gadagkar, 'Open access does more harm than good when based on a "pay to publish" business model', Physiology News 75, 46 (2009).
3. http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2015/09/predatory-publishers-earned-75-million-lastyear-study-finds (accessed 30 June 2016).