{"id":5226,"date":"2012-10-20T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2012-10-20T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:06:20","slug":"why-author-pays-open-access-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5226","title":{"rendered":"Why Author Pays Open Access is a Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a wonderful piece of software out there I hadn&#8217;t heard about, called <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsmathematics.com\/mathgen\/\">Mathgen<\/a>, which generates impressive looking mathematics research papers that are utter gobbledygook.   A Mathgen paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsmathematics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mathgen-1389529747.pdf\"><em>Independent, Negative, Canonically Turing Arrows of Equations and Problems in Applied Formal PDE<\/em><\/a> was recently accepted (see the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsmathematics.com\/blog\/archives\/102\">here<\/a>) by the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/apm\/\">Advances in Pure Mathematics<\/a>, one of many &#8220;open access&#8221; journals put out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/\">Scientific Research Publishing<\/a>.  If you&#8217;re looking for theoretical physics papers instead of pure math, Scientific Research Publishing has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/jmp\/\">Journal of Modern Physics<\/a>.  Some work on Mathgen is probably required before it is ready to submit papers to this journal.<\/p>\n<p>These journals charge authors $500 to publish their papers, something which is now being sold as a wonderful mechanism for providing &#8220;open access&#8221; to the scientific literature.  At the same time they make very clear what one big problem with this is: the financial incentive for the journal becomes to publish as many papers as possible, since that&#8217;s the only way to increase revenue. Scientific Research Publishing does a good job of showing where this model for funding dissemination of academic research leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a wonderful piece of software out there I hadn&#8217;t heard about, called Mathgen, which generates impressive looking mathematics research papers that are utter gobbledygook. A Mathgen paper on Independent, Negative, Canonically Turing Arrows of Equations and Problems in Applied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}