Unseriöse Open-Access-Zeitschriften im Visier der Federal Trade Commission der USA

“The FTC has charged publisher OMICS Group, Inc. with tricking researchers into submitting articles, only to charge them hundreds or thousands of dollars.

“We’ve alleged that they’ve made a number of misrepresentations on how they market their journals,” said Gregory Ashe, a staff attorney with the Federal Trade Commission.

OMICS International publishes hundreds of journals, with names like Biology and Medicine and Journal of Physical Mathematics.”

http://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/30/education/ftc-sues-academic-publisher-deceptive-practices

Siehe auch

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/08/29/omics-ftc-predatory-publisher/#.V8dZmPmLTcs

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/08/ftc-charges-academic-journal-publisher-omics-group-deceived

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Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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