Episode Synopsis "Mirror Mirror: the Growth of Mirror Journals"

Solving the problem of Open Access or causing more trouble?  Open Access can be hard to understand at the best of times but one term that causes particular confusion is ‘mirror journals’. Promoted as one way of solving the problem of a lack of publisher interest in Open Access, these titles are appearing in every discipline but what are they?  Join the OSC for this podcast to find out all about mirror journals, their history, the problems they can solve and those that they can potentially cause! 

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