October 5th, 2013 at 4:10PM

jtotheizzoe:

via freshphotons:

The accelerating pace of scientific publishing and the rise of open access, as depicted by xkcd.com cartoonist Randall Munroe.

It’s wonderful that so many research papers and journals are moving to the open-access model. People should be able to read the research that their tax dollars fund.

But as a note of caution, not all open access is created equally. John Bohannon of Science magazine sent fake papers to 304 open-access publishers. 157 of them (at least) accepted it, despite the fact that it was 100% made up.

Read more about that sting at Retraction Watch.

(via itsokaytobesmart)

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