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Comment on List of Publishers by It Could Happen to a Dean: Open Access and the Problem of Predatory Publishers | Strategist.ie
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by OwaisShafique
has your paper been published in Archives des Sciences or the website is really fake? I am asking because my two papers have also been accepted by the journal and they are asking me for the publication fee and I don’t want to take risk.
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by OwaisShafique
Your post has saved me from the fraudulent website otherwise I might have lost a lot of money. Thank you very much. Can you please tell me how to contact the original journal of Archives Des Sciences.
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Comment on One of the World’s Most Prolific Scholars: Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din by Asif
There are number of other Editors/EiC of the same journal and may be the article could be handled by some body else. Moreover, no individual can decide the quality of the paper.
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Comment on Journal Indexing: What it is, and What it’s Not by naser
Jeff
Check this out. I think this is really scam one. I hope this is not a repeat one. They have recently sent spam email and claim they are us based.
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Comment on Research by sivaforums
How about this article about Bentham Online Publishing where you worked.
http://www.dailypaul.com/96081/bentham-publishing-exposed-for-the-frauds-they-are
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Comment on Journal Indexing: What it is, and What it’s Not by Jeffrey Beall
I agree — this publisher is included on my list. Thanks.
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Comment on Open Access Alcohol by Digest tardivo » Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it
[...] keeps an online list of these dodgy outfits. (The latest publisher added to his list just launched 141 new medical journals.) “Anybody can set up a publishing company in a matter of hours,” Beall says. Many of the shady [...]
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Jeffrey Beall
Yikmis, There is nothing wrong with Wiley’s manuscript transfer program. I know of at least one other OA publisher that has a similar program. For article submissions that get rejected from journals with a very low acceptance rate, the publisher offers to publish the article in a good but lower impact journal, forwarding the peer reviews to the new journal. This is good for both the authors and the publisher. I think you need to re-read their documentation. It’s a promising program, a successful experiment, I think. Why do you see it as problematic? What’s the real source of your anger? What publisher are you associated with?
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Yikmi Smeral
Earlier when these high impact journals reject, the articles were going to PloS One. After the success of PloS One, all the big publishers start this manuscript transfer program. I see that Manuscript Transfer Program is meant for earning additional money. They do not want to send the rejected manuscripts to other publishers like PloS one. They just want to utilize themselves. When I submitted an article to Nature, my article was transferred to their Scientific Reports journal after rejection by Nature.
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Comment on Open Access Alcohol by APF Turner
You might like to check “OMICS Group” which has also recently launched 200 Open Access Journals and appears to be in a similar category
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Comment on Open Access Alcohol by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, thanks, that publisher is already on my list.
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by diehappy07
Following comment was posted in another blog post, but there were no replies so I am posting it again here.
“If a new publishers starts new journals, then how is the publisher supposed to advertise about his journals in ethically correct manner/ without spamming, so that other readers/researchers will come to know about the journals?”
I apologize for the repetition.
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Jeffrey Beall
Spamming is illegal in many countries and violates the terms of use of many Internet service providers.
I think a good way to promote a new journal is through exhibits and presentations at scholarly conferences, through word-of-mouth, advertising in journals, websites, etc.
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Jeffrey Beall
You could have withdrawn your article after it was first rejected.
Of course the publishers are going to try to compete with other publishers.
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Lost in Translation
One think lost in the comments above is the $400 handling fee. I don’t know of any reputable journals that charge such a fee. Now, if that is the wave of the future, then I stand back and laissez le bon temps roullette.
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Jeffrey Beall
Roddy, thank you for the constructive criticism. I take your point. Here are the reasons I added Wyno Academic Journals to my list:
1. The publisher is contradictory about licensing. On the one hand it claims to assign the CC BY license to published articles, yet in another place it says, “By submitting your scholarly work to any of our journals and if it is approved and published, you have automatically and permanently transferred your copyrights to Wyno Academic Journals.” I think this shows serious confusion on the part of the publisher. This is highly contradictory.
2. The site in one place says it has five journals; in another place it claims eight journals. In other words, the website is not well maintained as the company grows.
3. The instruction for authors page appears to be copied almost word-for-word from another publisher. Also, I suspect that the photographs used on the website are stolen from from other websites without permission or licensing.
4. The conference announcements page only lists one conference, with no link, and it doesn’t say where it will be held.
5. The other conference page is “under construction.” This may indicate that the whole site was thrown together quickly.
6. The publisher states that a Dr. Victor Obaigbena is its “editor in chief,” yet a Google Scholar search on his name turns up nothing. (His Facebook page says he only has a bachelors degree).
7. I did research the name prior to making fun of it. I found nothing. (I originally assumed that it was the name of a Nigerian state). There’s another publisher from Nigeria called Wudpecker Journals; given the intense competition among predatory journals, having a funny name is one way to stand out. I believe that is the intention here.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Sandy De Groote
Jeffrey Beall says spamming is illegal in many countries which is true. In his earlier blogs, he was commenting on Hindawi for spamming. Why he has not included Hindawi in his new list? What is predatory publisher then? Does it mean that Hindawi has stopped spamming? I still get spam emails from Hindawi. Some of you also would be still receiving spam solicitation emails from Hindawi.
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Nils
I agree with Jeffrey Beall’s reply. In addition, I believe that there are already so many journals (at least in my area of expertise) that one should have very good reasons to create a new one.
A good example of a success story, in which a journal managed to establish itself by word-of-mouth advertisement, is
the case of Markov Processes and Related Fields. See Vadim Malyshev’e editorial in a recent anniversary issue at
http://mech.math.msu.su/~malyshev/abs10.htm
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Comment on Scholarly Journals for Winos by Roddy MacLeod
Thankyou for the response to my Comment, Jeffrey. You may find http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6110/1018.summary of interest (I don’t have a sub to the full text)
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