Comments for Scholarly Open Access

i was going through the DOAJ team (http://doaj.org/about). it was surprising to find that except for Managing Director and Tom Olijhoek who is PhD in mol bio, rest are of the team members are 1) B.A. in English, Bulgarian and Russian, 2) worked as account and project manager, 3) Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Cultural Sciences. how are people with such non-scientific background qualified to judge scientific journals and recommend inclusion in DOAJ, considering that many journals are highly technical and from specialized fields?

It does indeed look intentional. When I posted the link yesterday it was going to the correct site but it now points to an apparent right-wing webpage. So that’s three times the cost of knowledge link posted here been diverted elsewhere. Strange!

Good point. I know of a couple of very successful green OA journals in my field. These however are managed by teams of highly respected academics, with support by scientific societies, not by entrepreneurs or would-be academics.

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As a computer scientist I find it highly suspicious that the link to web of knowledge would be mistyped three times. Yes, once can happen, when your copy-to-clipboard function was misbehaving. That happens. But three times? It looks like a WordPress injection of malware that is overwriting the links themselves. There is an external link plugin that automatically sets up links on URLs entered in text, and this was hacked last year. As I test I will put in two links here, one is an innocuous one to the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and the other one to the Cost of Knowledge (http://thecostofknowledge.com/). I have checked that the URL for Cost of Knowledge is correct. If either or both of these change to redirect somewhere else, I suggest that Jeffrey investigate the installation of WordPress.

Please tell something about lambert academic publishing by omniscriptum.

The mis-directed links were a small prank done, perhaps unwisely, by the blogger.

Please see <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/05/lambert-academic-publishing-a-must-to-avoid/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

Well done. The joke is on us.

Tsk, tsk!
Still, it shows readers were alert, I guess.

Right now one of my M.Sc students has been invited to publish under Novas Edições Acadêmicas, which belongs to OmniScriptum GmbH & Co. KG. It seems that a new arm of this group appeared specifically for Portuguese-speaking students and researchers

Dear Mr Beall,
I had been waiting for the past two weeks for a reply from this so-called journal – IJERN after having sent my article. I discovered your website and its useful information only today. I am worried about the misuse of my article. I am the sole author and I wouldn’t want any one else using it for their own benefit. Could you please advise?
Many thanks,
Nasheed

I have a problem about the post, where can i e-mail the creator?

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Dear Jeffrey,
May I know that The Journal of Tropical Agriculture published by Kerala Agricultural University is predatory or not?

Hello Jeffrey
Please Kindly comment on the following journals, I wish to submit manuscript for publication.
(1) Ecoforum Journal at (http://www.ecoforumjournal.ro/) or (http://www.ecoforumjournal.ro/index.php/eco).
(2) Advances in Mgt and Applied Economics published by Sciencpress ltd (http://www.scienpress.com/journal_focus.asp?Main_Id=55)