Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 01/07/2016 - 09:14
This week Richard Smith-Unna from the Hibberd Lab features heavily in a Nature News article on the dirty tricks some academic publishers are using to stifle text & data mining. In the article titled 'Publisher under fire for fake article webpages', Richard explains how he uncovered that the academic publisher Wiley (John Wiley & Sons), has been publishing fake articles with fake DOIs online in a bid to stifle the systematic downloading of research articles. Wiley even went as far as to mistakenly block a number of Cambridge users for clicking on these fake 'trap' website links. Well done Richard!