I want to know why IAP is on your list. IAP said they are free of charge.
Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by PCMAN
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
It does not look fishy to me. I will not be adding this journal to my list.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
This (International Academy Publishing (IAP)) is one of many different imprints published out of a house in San Bernardino. They don’t charge fees at the beginning to get a mass of articles, then they start charging. They offer easy acceptance.
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Comment on Hindawi’s Scientific World Journal Loses its Impact Factor by Michel
Just to mention that The Scientific World Journal has been included in Thomson Reuter´s JCR since 2013
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Comment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA Publishers by J.J.
What’s fundamentally wrong? A publishing scheme that caters for the need of authors to publish their stuff. There is an obvious conflict of interest when the journal has a monetary incentive to accept papers.
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Comment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA Publishers by Evert Nijenhuizen
Well, then you come to the fundamentals of whether open access publishing is ethical/right or not. That is off-topic in this particular blog post. This blog post was about special editions, and as far as I know, nothing “shocking” has been presented here. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Adrian
Here is another example from my alma mater:
http://www.nume.de/index.php/nume/issue/archive
It is a legimitate journal as it is published by a university, but it is very poorly done I guess. They published one issue with few articles in 2013 and only one article in 2014 and a kind of weird editorial:
http://www.nume.de/index.php/nume/article/view/17/11
This article does not even contain an abstract:
http://www.nume.de/index.php/nume/article/view/2
The typesetting is also kind of poor I think, but still they charge 700 Euro for an article…I don’t think that this journal will last long either.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Riaan Stals
Is this blog post commentary on *predatory* open access journals, or is it veiled criticism of open access publication as a whole?
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Comment on A New Open-Access Scholarly Publisher and an Old Scam by “Science Journal Publication”: Don’t fall for this OA scam | Science Refinery
[…] Parker. Oops. So I Googled SJP open access. The first hit was their site, but the second was this article. It describes the evidence that Science Journal Publication [sic] is a scam. They’re even […]
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Alex SL
Well, in my experience this is not necessarily a problem limited to open access journals. I have seen in the past sometimes very good papers by very highly regarded authors that appeared in journals I had never heard of before – because they disappeared without a trace two years later. Not every idea bears fruit in the long run, and voluntarist specialist editors at least will always have other demands on their time, be it in subscription or open access.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Low
It’s the unfortunate (or fortunate, depending on your point of view) of scholarly publishing … scientists generally want to publish in the most prestigious journal that will accept their work. The prestige of a new journal is zero, so it’s not likely to attract good papers, which in turn means it’s going to still have low prestige, and so on, in a terrible vicious cycle. For the same reason the economic moats around journals such as Nature or Physical Review Letters are essentially impenetrable. This isn’t a consequence of the OA model either; subscription journals also have to answer the question, ‘who is going to subscribe to a journal that has few publications?’.
Which begs another question: if you were in charge of a journal such as this one, how would you keep your journal afloat without sending emails soliciting contributions or asking for special issues? Activities such as these generate a lot of bad press, but if there is an alternative, I’m not aware of it. When an OA publisher sends such emails, it may not be because of “we need more revenue NOW!!!”, but because of “we need more submissions to keep our journals alive”.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Roger Harris
Here is an example of an open-access journal that has neither floundered nor died, but is actually flourishing, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (http://www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc/index). This is a zero-budget, totally volunteer-run and peer-reviewed journal that is independently ranked a close number 2 in its field. Since its founding in 2000, it has published 450 papers in 66 editions, averaging 4.4 editions per year with 6.8 papers in each.
Our zero-budget model has served us well. It sits in stark contrast to traditional academic publishing, where researchers are paid nothing for their material and are then charged exorbitant fees to read it. The big three publishers that dominate the industry consistently enjoy profit margins of 30-40%. They charge astronomic subscriptions for the top journals that put them out of reach of pretty much every university in the developing world.
Little wonder that there are concerned academics that have had enough – with the growing boycott of Elsevier journals. Around 15,000 academics have so far signed up to an online pledge not to publish or do any editorial work for the company’s journals, including refereeing papers (see http://thecostofknowledge.com/).
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Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by Friday links: the culture of dish-doing, death to inferences, #hipsterscience, and more | Dynamic Ecology
[…] and to have editors double as peer reviewers. Further troubling examples in the post and comments here. Yes, these are only anecdotes and I’m sure there are negative anecdotes about all […]
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Ken Lanfear
The sad thing about this “dead” journal is I couldn’t find any information about where the articles may be archived. Yes, they are on the apparently unmaintained website. But, how long can we count on them being there? At some point a webmaster is likely to delete the old pages. It seems rather unprofessional for whoever’s in charge to just let this happen.
I tried Google Scholar, and it pointed me right back to the journal, not to some permanent archive.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Marco
The Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy survived only 6 volumes:
http://www.ijvs.com/archive.html
Published by John Wiley & Sons.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Riaan Stals
In some strange way about which one can become conspiratorially inspired, your posted link to the anti-Elsevier pledge directly takes one into the heart of the beast, the home page of the RELX Group, holding Elsevier.
Let me try and see if oddness happens again: the URL for the online pledge to NOT cooperate with Elsevier is <a href="http://capitalism.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecostofknowledge.com/</a>.
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Renan Birck Pinheiro
Type the URL on your browser, or Google for it. For some reason it doesn’t work.
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Comment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA Publishers by J.J.
Evert, I agree that gold OA is ethically dubious per se. In this specific case, the editor, the authors and the publisher work in a closed loop from which the readership is excluded.
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Comment on OMICS Group Aims to Trick Researchers with Copycat Journal Titles by ChingYingTikTau
Just received a spam email from OMICS. Strange that they don’t even border to hide behind some less notorious names: http://omicsonline.org/chromatography-separation-techniques.php
I thought they would use some less known names introduced by Jeff earlier -_- Or they just happen to have unfortunately spammed a scholarlyoa.com reader. Either way, I was disappointed that they got my name wrong.
The address for Roger Waters, the so-called editorial assistant, is 731 Gull Ave, Foster City CA 94404. Have a guess whether it is an apartment or a store, and check Google Maps for the answer ;-)
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Comment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Renan Birck Pinheiro
Neither on this one, it redirects somewhere else. It looks intentional. Copy/paste the URL.
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