Friday, January 23rd 12:30pm-2pm, Alden Nowlan Grad House
Speakers include managing editor of academic journal and a collections librarian
Complimentary lunch to be provided
There have been a number of instances in popular media that have conducted ‘stings’ to publish bogus papers, or papers that have gone through the peer-review and editing process with egregious errors.
Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel published a paper together: http://www.vox.com/2014/12/7/7339587/simpsons-science-paper
“Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?”:http://retractionwatch.com/2014/11/11/overly-honest-references-should-we-citethecrappy-gabor-paper-here/

As academics, we welcome the campus community at all levels for a discussion of the degradation of the peer-review process through the open-access process.