[Open-access] CC-BY

[Mike Taylor]

On 4 September 2013 21:52, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 10:29:31 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> 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
>
> Possibly, perhaps even likely - but who's to say that this isn't pretty much what CNS editors are doing when deciding what to send out for review? So in sticking with the "quality by selection" meme, that's how I put it - why use different assumptions for the same opaque process? :-)

Your argument in defence of Apple Academic Press seems to be "the
other kids are all doing it". That was never an argument that
impressed my mother, and it's not working on me, either.

-- Mike.