The recent Science article on Open Access journals that accepted a scam paper has met with a storm of protest. Please be careful with the article as it did not have a control group (did not compare to paywall publications) and had a bias in OA journal selection.
Yes there are lists of OA journals to avoid (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/) but here are some responses to the contentious Science article
http://www.scilogs.com/in_scientio_veritas/science-sting-openaccess-peerreview/
http://oaspa.org/response-to-the-recent-article-in-science/
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/04/science-hoax-peer-review-open-access
http://im2punt0.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/science-mag-sting-of-oa-journals-is-it-about-open-access-or-about-peer-review/
http://osc.centerforopenscience.org/2013/10/04/a-publishing-sting-but-what-was-stung/
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1439
NB Curt Rice, Trondheim, recently tweeted: The EU has a goal that 60% of publications they finance are open access, by 2016.
Erik Champion 
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