Comments for Scholarly Open Access

“Aren’t all opinions subjective?” – of course they are, and once again I really appreciate your opinion, but your list has too important impact to be based on opinions. I can not seriously comment your work and the list based on my opinion. I commented the fact that you are not implying the same “rules” to all, you are filtering them, which is not right and is not working toward everybody’s goal to explain misunderstandings about open access publishing.
In scientific world (which I am part of) opinions do not matter, but arguments and facts.

Regarding the Science Publishing Group, I had worked in the Big Apple and Fashion Avenue as far as I know is a nickname for a portion of 7th Avenue famous for its fashion design houses. Apparently, they are located next to Ralph Lauren so they can afford to pay the high rent selling designer clothes. If you want to look at gorgeous women, go hang out there. As for the phone number, the area code is not for NYC.

I just looked unsuccessfully for 548 Fashion Avenue using Google Street View. 550 Fashion Avenue is an HSBC Bank branch. No address numbered 548 is visible.

Please read this note on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ijls-journal/self-downloadiosis-a-new-form-of-author-ailment-and-insincerity-in-academic-publ/209784032490818
It has to do with a form of author insincerity.

[...] criteria for inclusion in the lists can be found here. The author’s email address is: [...]

[...] Science and Engineering Publishing Company [...]

Thanks Jeff, I get asked about some of these publishers more than I’d like, but the profs and students they are targeting are grateful to know there are librarians keeping an eye on them, even if the industry can’t seem to police it. Your list is a super resource.

Thanks indeed. This list is going to be very useful to me as a member of hiring committees, especially since the predators have started to imitate the names of serious journals.

Thank you very much. I’ve found some answer to my concern.
“…the DOAJ does not have very stringent rules for inclusion. DOAJ seeems to include too many titles on Beall’s list, plus titles which have ceased to publish, plus some non-scholarly titles.”

What are the criteria to determine what journal is predator? If an academic group of people want to create a Scholar Journal are they free to do it? Do they need to request some authorization from some publisher association? If so, which one?

The criteria are linked to here on this post.

To start a new journal, you do not need to get permission from anyone (at least here in the west). Everyone should be free to start a scholarly journal. We just hope that those who do start jorunals follow the highest possible ethical publication standards.

Perhaps we have different definitions of “good research.”

Jeff, it would be even more helpful if you can append a link to an article you have written about these publishers/journals next to their names and URLs, so the readers get some more context. Thanks for the great work!

How you assess that these journals in your list are not following “acceptable” ethical publications standards?

[...] 2013 list of predatory open access publishers and journals has been released. This year’s list includes over 200 predatory open access publishing [...]

Please see my criteria here: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition/

Did you alone read and evaluate each one of these 370 journals? Is this an individual stand alone work? How reliable it is? I value such kind of effort, however I have some concerns with one person value judgment in public matters.

There are two lists — one of publishers and one of independent journals. Neither numbers 370. But yes, I personally have closely srcutinized and analyzed each and every publisher or independent journal on the list.

If you “have some concerns with one person value judgement in public matters” then you probably want to close down every newspaper and every magazine in the world. Good luck.

[...] Each year, Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, publishes a list of allegedly scientific journal publishers who really just want your submission [...]

[...] journal publishers. I mention this because I have now received about 4 unsolicited e-mails from David Publishing, one of the more notorious offenders, and I thought I would add a note of caution to the Google [...]

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