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[…] Scholarly Open Access takes a critical stand against OMICS Groups publishing techniques. According to the article, OMICS misplaces credit and violates publishing policies. Read all about their “Predatory Publishing” here. […]

The PDF of all articles in VOL.03 ISSUE 01 (2013) is giving 404 errors. What happened to the articles?

Open access publishing is a cheating game played by crooks to take advantage of gullible authors. I completely agree with Jeffrey Beall that we need to settle on the best model for dissemination of scholarly research but as he says, and I agree 100% that neither green nor gold open-access is that model.

And people say I am a troll!!!

Correct; I use different criteria than Scopus does.
Also, note that Global Impact Factor is a bogus metric.

I submitted a manuscripts to Sage Open. I got lengthy and detailed comments, with a suggestion that I revise and resubmit. After having done so, the paper was given an extremely thorough copy editing. The initial submission was on 9 September 2013; the submission of the revised manuscript was on 28 May 2014; the paper was published (online) on 20 August 2014. The paper is licensed under Creative Commons licenses. We paid a submission fee of $99 when the paper was accepted. I am satisfied with the process and the final product.

If Elsevier is the best there is, we’re in really deep trouble.

I think the first step to take is to come out clean about the impact factor issue. Write it boldly on your site that your impact factor is not ISI impact factor. If you cannot be trusted about having a genuine impact factor, how can one trust you about doing an acceptable peer review?

Hi Bell, do you know about International Journal of advanced research?

http://journalijar.com/current-issue/

I have actually seen the journal in your list of Questionable Standalone Journals. A friend has published with the journal and wanted me to publish there too.

I have also received an invitation to publish with the journal http://www.lap-publishing.com/authors_infos_pdf/gb
but I dont know them much. Please help me know more about it.

Thanks

They want you to pay them $3,000 and then they will write up a magazine article about your research. It’s not a scholarly journal in the traditional sense.

Yes, and I recommend that all scholars avoid submitting papers to it.

Dear Canning

Fraud exists anywhere even in ELSEVIER, just look at the so called journal published by this well known publisher: Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences

Download one article randomly and judge it by yourself. Also note that My Beall normally delete many messages coming from OA supporters so they stop following this blog.

Farid

Thanks Bell.

I don’t believe you. Why would Mr. Beall delete messages? This blog is about open access publishing. Mr. Beall is trying to clean the mess open access publishing has made in the scholarly world. If Mr. Beall is deleting messages it would mean that he has some ulterior motive in running this blog. What could that be? That Mr. Beall is against open access or that he is working to benefit some publishers? I have heard these arguments before and i don’t believe them either. Another reason I don’t believe you is because Mr. Beall has published every comment I have made on this blog.

[…] Beall investigates whether a journal has been hijacked, or just changed its […]

The National Library of Australia catalog has an entry for the Australian journal of that name, listing it as beginning in 2005 (it also provides an e-address for the Australian publisher), with no further information.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17634115?q=+&versionId=20683348

A little more Googling found references to papers from the 2005 issue. My guess is that it quickly went moribund, inspiring unknown scammers — who may or may not be based in the UAE — to start up their own website, using the old ISSN because who’s going to stop them?

The first few papers I looked at, in the first few issues, all seem to have been scraped from low-level or predatory journals elsewhere on the http://WWW... perhaps on the theory that such journals are less likely to notice or complain about plagiarism.

Readers may also be “interested” in the paper http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.pamj.20130205.14 in the SPG journal “Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal”, in which it is proved that pi is exactly equal to 355/113 (in particular, pi is rational).

I would recommend against submitting papers to this journal. I’ve added it to my list.

Hi Prof Beall,
Whats your opinion about these journal;
1. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management
2. Australian Journal of Business and Management Research (AJBMR)
3. INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS

I will be waiting for your information. Thank you very much.

Regards
muafipaciran@gmail.com

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