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Politicians on the right surely wipe with their left hand; and vice versa?
The only place to find the Golden Age of Science is in the future, but we need some help in getting there.
If there's a general sense that academic publication is about knowledge dissemination rather than meeting performance targets, academics and universities become less vulnerable to predatory journals.
Scientific truth is based on a body of research which has been tried and tested by many researchers over time. Peer review filters the good science from the bad.
A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.
There are many exciting new publishing opportunities opening up for academics who want to take their work beyond traditional spaces like journals.
African academics and universities have been caught in the predatory journal web. It's time for the continent's universities to start taking this threat to their integrity seriously.
To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked our readers what they wanted to know about the initiative. Here are their questions with answers from our experts.
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Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University
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Deputy Director, Scholarly Communication and Research Services, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge
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Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, University of Melbourne
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Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University
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Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Director, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Management, University of Johannesburg
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Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Zoology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Royal Holloway
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Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town
