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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Claudia C. Holland

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Thank you for your response, Harvey. I realize that money is being made by non-profit groups. However, those funds are typically funneled back into programs and services for the recipients they are serving, so to speak. Their non-profit status dictates, to a large degree, how they can use their money.

I am not opposed to supporting a for-profit company. However, I am opposed to what library customers, as major consumers of journal subscriptions, consider excessive, unfair, and unsustainable profit margins. A tiered system of support would not be to “punish” individuals who choose to publish with a for-profit publisher; it would be one means of continuing to offer financial assistance but perhaps ensuring a mutual responsibility for paying an APC or an OA option. Sure, it’s important what faculty “think,” which is, I guess you mean, the value they place on their journal choice.

Regarding your comment about censorship, I think that is not applicable in this context. An individual can publish wherever they want and provide access to their content to whomever they want (although, using your definition, they are censoring their own work when they publish behind a pay wall or sign away their copyrights).

As part of a partially state-supported public institution, we are accountable for spending funds the public and our institution entrust to us in the most responsible way possible. If denying support for an APC that results in double-spending is censorship, then we are guilty. One could even argue this is “triple spending” because faculty authors are being compensated with state funds, in our case, to conduct research & write articles, which are then either given freely to, or one pays, a publisher to publish. There is definitely something wrong with that model.


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by CYG

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Do you mind if you can check these 2 journals?
1. World journal of cardiology? (baishideng)
2. Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology (libertas academia)
If possible, I would like to know more about credibility the journals itself, and also the publishers.

Comment on Beware of Spam Email With Offers to Promote Your Research by Nola Aitken

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I received an invitation from International Innovation today. (www.researchmedia.eu. and http://www.internationalinnovation.com)

The poor word usage and grammatical errors in the email tipped me off right away. The other tip-off was that I had to pay to have my research published.
No thanks.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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Because there are so many individual journals, I perform my analyses at the publisher level whenever I can. For these two journals, neither publisher is on my list. I do however, receive many inquiries about each of these two publishers, an indication that some find them questionable.

Comment on Another OA Publisher Launches with 96 New Journals by alexo

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hello Dr. Beall
please tell me international journal of public health science included in this group
thanks

Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Riaz Uddin

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Well Hindawi is reputable for many reasons, I think. Firstly, they demand they are reputable (!), secondly, if you follow a recent research published in Science by John Bohannon (if not, please follow the link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.summary) it is clear that the peer review policy of Hindawi is functional and smoothly working, third and finally, I tried to publish with them but failed for 5 times.

It is not because I failed, it is because I have seen their quality of review. One of my manuscript was reviewed by 6 peers (its brutal, pathetic, inhuman) and got rejected on 2-4 votes!

Comment on Another OA Publisher Launches with 96 New Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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That journal is published by the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science, which is not on my list. So, no, it is not included in this group.

Comment on OA Publisher Disappears from Internet, Goes Out of Business by Jeffrey Beall

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Those links go to the Wayback Machine archived version of the website. Sorry, I should have made this clearer.


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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I recommend sending them an email asking that your paper be withdrawn.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Sunday B. Akpan

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Hello prof. please kindly provide us with the lists of authentic journals and publishers in agricultural sciences. Thanks

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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I’m sorry, I only list the questionable publishers.

Comment on OA Publisher Disappears from Internet, Goes Out of Business by Alan Benson

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Just out of curiosity, was the line “This is a demo content. Please edit me” on their logo when they were live? If so, then wow.

Comment on OA Publisher Disappears from Internet, Goes Out of Business by Jeffrey Beall

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I think so. I got that image from the Wayback Machine, which supposedly records the web pages as they appeared.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Sunday B. Akpan

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Thanks Prof. Please advice us. we want to submit our ongoing manuscripts to the following journals:
(1) Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics
(2) Journal of agriculture and environmental sciences and
(3) JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN AGRICULTURE

Please we need your recommendation. Thanks

Comment on OA Publisher Launches with over 350 New Journals by Chris

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I just got an email invitation to serve on the editorial board of one of these journals and review for it (#76) with the following contact info:
John H. Reed, M.D., MBA
President
International Journal Network, Inc.
244 Fifth Avenue, Suite J-291
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-576-8876


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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Summary: I recommend that you avoid submitting your work to all three of these journals. In each case the publisher is on my list. The <em>Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics</em> is published Academic Journals (Lagos), and this publisher is on my list. The <em>Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences</em> is published by the so-called American Research Institute for Policy Development, and this publisher is on my list. The <em>Journal of Advances in Agriculture</em> is published by the so-called Council For Innovative Research, and this publisher is on my list.

Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Oz Boy

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They are still out there trawling for business – just received an invite to apply to join an editorial board. The offer of a discount on your own article for reviews was a bit of a give away.

Comment on OA Publisher Disappears from Internet, Goes Out of Business by Riaz Uddin

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The cover page is interesting as they gave people the option to edit! Probably this is another definition of “open” access- “we are so open that you even can edit our web page”.

Recently I got astonished to note that one journal, forgot the name, is claiming they have ISI Impact Factor. It was surprising as the journal started it operation less than couple of years ago. So, out of curiosity I found claimed “ISI Web page”. Here it is: http://isindexing.com/isi/

I don’t know whether it is an offense or not to use the abbreviation to fool people. I am wondering Thomson Reuters perhaps can take action in this regard and save researchers from publishing in bogus IF journals.

Do you have anything in your mind Jeffrey?

Thanks.

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