Predatory Journals
The dark side, or one dark side, of open access publishing: predatory journals . Just like you shouldn't pay for graduate school, you shouldn't have to pay for publishing in a journal. Scholarly subventions are another thing entirely (I linked Villanova's program description because it included details not found on other sites nor on Wikipedia itself). And I mentioned Edward Tufte's risky publishing venture: TCQ: How did you decide to self-publish your books on design? Tufte: In 1975, when Dean Donald Stokes of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School asked me to teach statistics to a dozen journalists who were visiting that year to learn some economics, I annotated a collection of readings, with a long section on statistical graphics. The literature here was thin, too often grimly devoted to explaining use of the ruling pen and to promulgating “graphic standards” indifferent to the nature of visual evidence and quantitative reasoning. Soon I wrote up some ideas. Then J
