[Open-access] CC-BY

Wed Sep 4 20:29:31 UTC 2013

On 3 September 2013 16:32, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 4:08:40 PM, you wrote:
>
>> http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2013/08/31/troubling-open-access-cc-by/
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Here are mine (comment on article):
>
> Just PLoS ONE alone has published almost 100k OA articles since its inception. Now editors are going through all of these articles and picking the 'best' ones for a compilation in a book.

Would that it were so. I am pretty darned certain that their selection
process is:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aplosone.org+ecology+desert

If they ARE doing more, then it's to say the least surprising that
there are no introductions explaining why the successful articles made
the cut.

-- Mike.