Comments for Scholarly Open Access

I am a Phd student. last month I have submit my paper to journal of tourism and hospitality of OMICS group. I received some comments from 2 reviewers. One reviewer said: well written paper. The other said:The study requires considerable attention with respect to writing style, grammar and punctuation.
4 days later they ask me to submit the revision immediately. I did so. Then they quickly accepted my paper. Today they sent me the final pdf and the invoice indicting the publication fee is 3619usd. However, in their website, the publication fee of this journal is only 600USD. I am a student I don’t have much money to pay.

Any advise? what should I do?

Simply because Open Access is NEW. There are authors whose papers only are accepted on account of their impressive Curriculum, and because they cite the convenient papers.
Double blind refereeing would help.
The problem is that market does not work. Many Universities are full of overpaid professors, that try to publish anything (one year ago I received a paper for refereeing and it would be the 3rd edition…) so that they satisfy their commitments to the employer

Slots conferences concern Brazilian scientists

Registration is open, with fees up to € 450 for 116 simultaneous scientific meetings in February 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. This kind of event is known as “scam conferences” abroad. Organized without academic care, they are identified as fraudulent by research institutions from other countries.

These 116 scam conferences are organized by Waset (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology). Despite its name, it is a publisher. Although discloses be located in Riverside (Connecticut, US), its phone contact is from the United Arab Emirates. And besides invalid, the records of their magazines are from Turkey, according to the numerical international registration ISSN journals.

While abroad Waset is pointed in alerts for researchers not participate in their conferences or publish in their journals (and in the list of predatory publishers of Jeffrey Beall), in Brazil this publisher appears in the selection based on quality criteria made by CAPES, agency of the Ministry of Education.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2015/03/1597163-eventos-cientificos-caca-niqueis-preocupam-cientistas-brasileiros.shtml (in Portuguese)

Withdraw the article, tell them you don’t want to publish in their journal, and then re-submit it to a decent journal… Good luck!

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They can now claim to be indexed in Scholarly Open Access

Dear Mr Beall,
Thank you for replying, and for the advice.
Nasheed

I’m being upgraded to Dr. all the time by Elsevier and all other publishers

Dear Jeffrey Beall
I need an information about the publisher “Scientific Research Platform (SRP)” – Seychelles, European Journal of Scientific Research. What is your advise?

http://www.europeanjournalofscientificresearch.com/

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11 sentences ;)

This is one of the most predatory of the predatory publishers, and I recommend that all researchers completely avoid this publisher and all its journals and services.

Dear Beall,

What about this journal?

http://www.europeanjournalofscientificresearch.com/ejsr_editorial.html

I got initial acceptance letter on 26th February, 2015. But my paper was submitted on 6th November, 2014.

regards.

I recommend not publishing in this journal.

Dear Low,
thanks for the explanation, I already know what a galley was, I did not know if with a Gallery Proof a Galley Proof was meant!

SO, Gallery Proof=Galley Proof?

Hi. I run a relatively new journal – the Journal of Health and Pollution. http://www.journalhealthpollution.org . We were begun by a parent not for profit – Blacksmith Institute. I believe we are ethical and discerning, and yet have a hard time competing with the likes of OMICS. What can we do to stand out and increase submissions? We need more submissions in order to be indexed.

Sunday, I have checked this journal and have added it to my list. I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal. Among other problems, this journal advertises an impact factor it does not have.

Mr. Jeffrey Beall,

Thank you for your advise. The article has not been published on their website yet. I have not sent the final correction to them yet. Do you think it is OK if I drastically revise the article and submit it elsewhere?

However, yesterday they said that the system made a mistake, so the invoice was 3619$. Now they sent an internet payment link for me to pay 619$ for article publication fee. However in the first invoice, 3619$ is for both article publication and handling fee. I think this may be a kind of trick. Suppose if I paid 619$, they would possibly request me to pay 3000$ more for article handling fee.

I already ask them to withdraw my article. They replied that the article could not be withdraw…and I must pay at least 519$.

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