[open-science] more fox researches hen research - this time in hen's clothing

Fri Apr 5 21:41:37 UTC 2013

A curious case of open access "research" from "Oxford Biotech Roundtable":

Thanks to Peter Suber for the tip about yet another misleading open access survey. Following are my comments. In brief, this appears to be a curious case of two layers of smoke and mirrors about who is behind the survey that could make for an interesting question for a research methods class. The survey preamble says that this is a student-led organization. The about page claims that this is the health care and life sciences industry. The description of gold and green OA reflect the biases of the toll access scholarly publishing industry, which are at odds with those of the health care and life sciences industry. Who are you really, OBR?

Details:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/04/industry-pretends-to-be-student-led-or.html

Heather G. Morrison