A Wiley What?paper @ OA

Play this game long enough, and you know the moves. Any corporate fluff promoting OA publishing will have the following factors:

1. Nothing about quality
2. Everything about quantity
3. Squirrelly claims about citation advantages, easily dismissed via logic and facts
4. Use of other questionable metrics
5. Efforts to downplay or dismiss costs, complexity, or quality concerns

And so we come to John Wiley & Sons’ latest “whitepaper” called “The Evolution of Open Access for Institutions Across the Globe,” a bit of corporate communication with an uncertain audience and enough bumbling claims and overheated nonsense to keep me entertained for at least 15 minutes.

So, thank you for the chuckles.