Re: Hoax Article Accepted by OA Bentham Journal

[bgsloan2@yahoo.com]

Xiaotian Chen said:

"This story should be more of an OA problem than a peer-review 
problem...The model of author paying for OA publication may have 
contributed to this, while common sense tells us that traditional 
model (customers pay) may work better for quality control."

I may be misunderstanding Xiaotian Chen's posting, and I'm 
certainly no expert regarding author fees, but I'm kinda thinking 
that the "author pays" model is not limited to just OA 
publications? Aren't there subscription journals that also charge 
author fees or page fees?

Bernie Sloan

On 15-Jun-09, at 6:34 PM, Chen, Xiaotian wrote:

> This story should be more of an OA problem than a peer-review
> problem.
>
> According to the original LJ story, the journal "claims to
> enforce peer-review."
>
> The model of author paying for OA publication may have
> contributed to this, while common sense tells us that traditional
> model (customers pay) may work better for quality control.
>
> Xiaotian Chen
> Bradley U Library
> Peoria, Illinois
> http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~chen/index.html