Comments for Scholarly Open Access

For no good reason I decided to sample the quality of this fine journal. The first article I looked at, the final article in the current issue, was “SHELL SHOCK: A DEADLY VULNERABLE THREAT TO THE INTERNET”. In it, we find phrases such as “From the moment CloudFlare turned on *our* Shellshock protection” (emphasis added), quickly revealing that most of the paper has been delicately lifted, almost completely intact (even the figures!), from a Cloudflare blog posting. The author’s biography does not reveal any affiliation with Cloudflare or the author of the blog post.

Searching for references, I did not find any footnotes at all in the paper, but it does include the following exemplary references section:

[1] Google.com
[2] Wikipedia.com
[3] The Economics Times, pg no.7,1nd October 2014.
[4] Yahoo.com
[5] Symantec.com
[6] Youtube.com

A true model of generality, suitable for any paper whatsoever!

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Dear Sir,
Is this publisher is in you list

http://www.ikpress.org/

They are charging Fees for arical acess as well as charging fees for Artical Processing Charges too

See author instruction
“Kindly note that NO FREE PDF copy or OFFPRINTS or Journal Hardcopy will be supplied. Authors are required to order at least one of the following products before final publication. Please send the filled order form before final publication to accounts.ikp1@ikpress.org.” From IK Press

http://www.ikpress.org/page.php?id=author-guidelines

This publisher is not on my list because it’s not an open access publisher. I limit my lists to OA publishers and journals.
As you indicate, they charge both authors and readers, and I would personally advise both authors and readers to avoid this publisher’s journals.

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[…] Beall, associate professor and librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, first reported the story on his blog, Scholarly Open Access. The website includes a running list of over 650 publishers of what Beall has […]

Hi Dear Beall,

I have came across this publishing company called SG Science Publishing Group (http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/). Kindly please evaluate this publishing?

Science Publishing Group is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
I strongly recommend that researchers not submit their papers to this predatory publisher’s journals.

When you list “Stringer Open”, do you mean “Springer Open”?

No. Please see my blog post about this impersonation <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/11/26/stringer-open/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

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Excellent stuff, you may also like this spoof conference paper from the late Kim Il Sung accepted at another Predatory Publisher (OMICS) conference! http://witchdoctor.ca/?p=623

What a donnish comment!

I have been a victim in a similar funny (not so much back then) story. My IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing article was plagiarized in one of these predatory open-access journals. Thus, I wrote a complaint note to the editors attaching the original paper in the email for reference but they just replied after a few days that my submission was accepted for publication! There were excellent review points and bogus comments even. They kept sending me weekly spam for several months requesting to pay the ~$100 publication fee.

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Thanks for letting me know about this journal. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. They promise a two-day turnaround time for peer reviews, among other significant weaknesses.

Reassuring to know that the Canadian Association of Witch Doctors are ever-vigilant.

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