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Open Access: What Is It and Why All the Fuss?

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Jill Cirasella

(Déjà vu? This is a very slight reworking of a post from the Graduate Center Library blog.) You might have noticed that CUNY librarians talk a lot about open access — sometimes in conversations about dissertation embargoes, sometimes on the topic of authors’ rights, sometimes in … Continue reading →

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Tarnished Gold: The Tale of Bohannon, DOAJ, and the Predators

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Monica Berger

Auspicious or not, this April Fool’s Day I am reposting in its entirety this post, which was published last week in the JustPublics@365 blog.  Many of us may remember the Sokal hoax of 1996. Alan Sokal, a physics professor, successfully published a … Continue reading →

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Cultural Anthropology, Be My Valentine!

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Jill Cirasella

The peer-reviewed journal Cultural Anthropology has gone open access!  When the Directory of Open Access Journals boasts almost 10,000 gold open access journals, why is this big news?  For several reasons: Now that the open access movement is gaining momentum, … Continue reading →

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Predatory Open Access Publishers

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Jill Cirasella

The 2013 list of predatory open access publishers and journals has been released. This year’s list includes over 200 predatory open access publishing operations and over 100 predatory standalone journals.  Last year’s list named only 23 predatory publishers — clearly, … Continue reading →

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