%0 Generic %1 vardi2012predatory %A Vardi, Moshe Y. %D 2012 %K 12452 publishing scholarly %T Predatory Scholarly Publishing %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2209249.2209250 %X Scholarly publishing is a very unique business. In a typical business, you have two parties: sellers and buyers. In scholarly publishing you also have sellers and buyers, these are the publishers and the research libraries. However, you have two additional parties. On one side, you have authors, who freely and eagerly provide content ("publish or perish"). On the other side, there are editors and reviewers, who act as gatekeepers. They do so for a variety of reasons: sometimes for financial remuneration, but mostly out of civic duty and to gain scholarly prestige.

@misc{vardi2012predatory, abstract = { Scholarly publishing is a very unique business. In a typical business, you have two parties: sellers and buyers. In scholarly publishing you also have sellers and buyers, these are the publishers and the research libraries. However, you have two additional parties. On one side, you have authors, who freely and eagerly provide content ("publish or perish"). On the other side, there are editors and reviewers, who act as gatekeepers. They do so for a variety of reasons: sometimes for financial remuneration, but mostly out of civic duty and to gain scholarly prestige.}, added-at = {2012-07-12T09:34:17.000+0200}, author = {Vardi, Moshe Y.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2765daf904419de887b0ec0a32e8b5f11/cram}, description = {Predatory Scholarly Publishing | July 2012 | Communications of the ACM}, interhash = {6f01c03792fd0ef6f7d828648e36cb19}, intrahash = {765daf904419de887b0ec0a32e8b5f11}, keywords = {12452 publishing scholarly}, month = {7}, timestamp = {2012-07-12T09:35:26.000+0200}, title = {Predatory Scholarly Publishing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2209249.2209250}, year = 2012 }