16-01-2018 21:20 via ottawacitizen.com

No formal policing to keep federal dollars away from predatory journals

The federal agencies that distribute $3 billion a year for university and hospital research are counting on academics to police each other and prevent colleagues from publishing in “predatory” journals that print anything for cash.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) give research grants to professors and doctors.
They say they don’t take any
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