Thursday, January 25, 2007
Fraudster's front men are employed by commercial scientific publishers
According to "Nature", Eric Dezenhall has made a name for himself helping companies and celebrities protect their reputations, working for example with Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron chief now serving a 24-year jail term for fraud.
Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.
I have to agree and good riddance to such publishers.
There is a lot you can read from the Nature article, and even the conservative American Chemical Society says "When any government or funding agency houses and disseminates for public consumption only the work it itself funds, that constitutes a form of selection and self-promotion of that entity's interests."
Boing- boing say "The report has to be read to be believed" and give "a sample that gives a good picture of the type and degree of spin proposed"
IMO: Even major scientific commercial journals are tending nowadays often to get the disgarded leavings for the papers they publish. This is because many of the smaller journals run for profit are not widely enough circulated to give serious work the attention that it deserves, and they are also too expensive for smaller libraries and certainly impossible to even read by many unaffiliated private individuals.
Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.
I have to agree and good riddance to such publishers.
There is a lot you can read from the Nature article, and even the conservative American Chemical Society says "When any government or funding agency houses and disseminates for public consumption only the work it itself funds, that constitutes a form of selection and self-promotion of that entity's interests."
Boing- boing say "The report has to be read to be believed" and give "a sample that gives a good picture of the type and degree of spin proposed"
IMO: Even major scientific commercial journals are tending nowadays often to get the disgarded leavings for the papers they publish. This is because many of the smaller journals run for profit are not widely enough circulated to give serious work the attention that it deserves, and they are also too expensive for smaller libraries and certainly impossible to even read by many unaffiliated private individuals.
# posted by uv : 11:20 PM
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