Novel Aspects of Open-Access / Predatory Science Publishing: Samizdat* Avenue for Novel Ideas and the Concept of Predatory Editors

Two fundamentally new approach is presented to the ongoing and heated debate around the predatory division of the open access science publishing. 1. The somewhat relaxed peer-review practices of some Open-Access / Predatory [OA/P] journals have an important, not widely recognized function: it makes possible to disclose novel scientific insights which are automatically censored by the paradigm-oriented or politically manipulated Scholarly / Academic (S/A) publishers. They can be the contemporary “Samizdat” [1] alternative for some original and daring scientists. 2. Much of the critic against OA/P journals is failing even if they are well founded. It can be changed by publicly recognizing each Editorial Board member of every predatory journal as Predatory Editors, i.e. accomplices [2] in the fraudulent, deceptive publishing practices.