A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company

September 26, 2012

One of their journals … with a title that appears to be lost in translation.

Virtually all the publishers on my list of predatory publishers maintain a website for the publisher with links to, among other things, their predatory journals.

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Book review: Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

May 28, 2012
Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

Published by UNESCO.

Swan, Alma. (2012). Policy guidelines for the promotion of open access. (Open guidelines series). Paris: UNESCO. ISBN: 978-92-3-001052-2 Available: http://bit.ly/LXaiKK

This is a book about using mandates and sanctions to promote open-access publishing. Read the rest of this entry »


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