RE: Post at Scholarly Kitchen

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

Those of us with long memories recall the dire warnings that 
'author-pays' models would fatally undermine the peer-review 
system and bring quality-control to its knees.  The results of 
this little experiment certainly cause me to chuckle at that 
nonsense.

And yes, sooner or later I'm sure that we will see our next Sokal 
- the difference will be that in this case the joke would have 
cost Phil $800, in Sokal's it was the subscribers who paid!

David
SPARC Europe

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Esposito
Sent: 13 March 2009 19:50
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Subject: Post at Scholarly Kitchen

Phil Davis just ran an interesting experiment that he reported on 
at the Scholarly Kitchen blog:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/pmd8/

Davis created a fictitious (and amusing) article on phrenology 
and submitted it to the Bentham publishing company, which has an 
author-pays OA model. Studying the process is illuminating, and 
also will trigger a couple laughs.

Sooner or later we will see our next Sokal.

Joe Esposito