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Ulli Weier Life Sciences Division

Open Access Publishing in the Life Sciences

It’s a jungle out there !

[email protected]

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Online Publishers

• Biomed Central – London, UK• Sage Publications USA, Thousand Oaks • Bentham - Dubai, U.A.E • Pagepress – Pavia, Italy • The Omics Group – West L.A., Sunnyvale

• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) ?• ……

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On-line publishing business models

• Open Access processing fee (ranging from $350 (Stem Cell Studies, Pagepress) or $450 (The Histochemical Journal, Sage Publ.) to $ 3600 (The Omics Group)

• No fee to publish, but Pay-per-View or access fee (Current Genomics, Bentham)

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• Fake Articles

• Fake Journals

• Fake Conferences

Fake Articles SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

Students at Sharif University get a paper accepted

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/

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http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

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Generated by SCIgen, csail.mit

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 77(6), Dec 1999, 1121-1134

Fake Articles ?

Fake Journals ??

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Fake conferences ??

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Some Suggestions

• Update ‘How to Publish at LBNL’

• Combine efforts of LBNL’s IT Dept., Berkeley Learning Institute (BLI) & the UCB campus to offer a course ‘Bioethics and the Need to Publish –

When Worlds Collide.’

• Blacklist publishers that do not follow acceptable standards.

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Thanks for your attention.

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