Achilleas Kostoulas

Applied Linguistics & Language Teacher Education

Tag: publishing

  • Possible scam involving academic publishing?

    Possible scam involving academic publishing?

    You will never get a fee for publishing in an academic journal.  According to a recent post in Scholarly Open Access (a now [2019] defunct blog, which used to report on academic publishing scams), there is at least one academic publisher so keen to recruit authors and editors that they offer rewards of “1,000-10,000 dollars as…

  • “Open access: six myths to put to rest”

    “Open access: six myths to put to rest”

    Since writing my post on Open Access, this article by Peter Suber, the director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, was brought to my attention. In response to what are described as six “common and harmful misunderstandings about open access”, the author notes that: 1. (Gold) Open Access journals are not the only venue for providing…

  • Open Access: Some facts and some thoughts

    Open Access: Some facts and some thoughts

    Some key concepts about Open Access publishing.

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