The downside of open-access publishing.
@article{Haug2013TheDO,
title={The downside of open-access publishing.},
author={Charlotte J Haug},
journal={The New England journal of medicine},
year={2013},
volume={368 9},
pages={
791-3
}
}The open-access model in which authors pay to have their work published offers an alternative way of financing quality control in scholarly publishing. But it also opens up opportunities for unscrupulous online “vanity presses” to exploit authors for profit.
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