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Thought I would try and mention at least some of the many articles readers have sent along in e-mails or brought up in comments.  I won’t go into depth on them but just sort of link out to them for your perusal.  Before we get there thought I might just mention one sort of FYI [...]

Richard Poynder, Gunther Eysenbach and others have been investigating the practices of some of the new Open Access publishers, such as Bentham Open, Libertas Academica and Scientific Journals International (SJI). The fear is that an unscrupulous publisher might look on Open Access as a way to make a fast buck (in a “Gold Rush”), hoping [...]