Comments for Scholarly Open Access

An interesting article that has clearly promoted much discussion around this topic, thank you for posting.

That’s greedy!

Dear Jeffrey, I just got an email offering to submit any article in journal below: *American Journal of Experimental Agriculture* *(AJEA **Link**)* I am wondering if it is included in a predatory?

Thank you, Jamal

I’m trying to understand how your list works. It doesn’t include Sage Open. Yet Sage Open lists no editor-in-chief; no academic affiliation for any editor (only for members of the “editorial advisory board”, which is often and honorific category); and has an unusually broad editorial remit. Does the venerable name Sage get them off the hook?

[...] Jeffrey Beale, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, publishes a list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers“; his blog, Scholarly Open Access, discusses cases. Read a few of the cases and the line [...]

[...] though Beale’s blog can be, I do think he’s got a chip on his shoulder here. Reviewing Alma Swan’s report on open access for UNESCO, he slates her for using the term “double dipping” to [...]

[...] a great solicitation from David Publishing Company, a company on Beall’s list of predatory publishers (I’ve reformatted it so you don’t have to see all the fonts they [...]

Jamal,

Yes, that journal is published by ScienceDomain International. This publisher is included on my list, so I recommend that you not submit any papers to them. Good luck.

Jeffrey

My suggestion: Lip Glossers

Just another variation of the vanity press… Like a lot of the “Who’s Who” publications. How bad does one career have to go before they pay for a fluff piece on some magazine that no one reads and certainly no institution collects?

Douglas Adams would call these the Golgafrinchan Middle Class.

Sage Open covers pretty much everything. But AFAIK, they are legit. Thoughts?

How do I get my journal indexed?

[...] L’editore, che non ha ancora deciso se mettere o no una s ad <em Application,pubblica qualunque cosa a pagamento. Con un supplemento, provvede alla traduzione in [...]

I found that installing a good filter such as Spam Assassin in my email program, in addition to my university’s filter, does help significantly. It didn’t take the filter very long to learn that mails, e.g., by Carson Willis should go directly to the Spam folder.

What I found disturbing, however, is that according to our system administrator, about 97% of all emails reaching the university are sorted out immediately. In this respect, junk mail is really an incredible waste of ressources.

There is clearly a big difference between SAGE Open ($99) and the others ($1080 and up). How does SAGE rate on the other Beall criteria?

[...] have seen other online journals come and go, and we have also seen an increase in so-called ‘predatory journals’ that are not created and developed by academics for academics, but by questionable private [...]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Swedish article in “Tentakel” is referring to “Projects magazine” (http://www.projectsmagazine.eu.com/magazines) from Insight publishers. I think they target EU projects and european research councils. They contacted my (three times by phone) about doing an article on my research, and if I remember correctly the fee was 2500 euro. I agree that this is a new spin on vanilty press.

I also received an unsolicited email from Lambert Academic Publishing, an imprint of VDM. The thesis I completed in 2003 and I have no plans to follow up on the researches I did then. I am now doing researches that only marginally involve the researches related to the Ph.D. I was then doing, and in which Lambert is interested. I definitely don’t plan an academic career and I had no plans to try to get the Ph.D. published anyhow.

So I’m still unclear from the above posts as to why I should not accept the Lambert offer. I don’t believe it costs me anything unless there’s something they are not telling me. I didn’t plan to use the Ph.D. for anything and it would be nice to see it in print, even if few copies are sold. I do hope to include the Ph.D. on a CV I will write when I approach publishers for the work I am presently doing, but that’s about the only connection I can see. In this situation, what’s the problem?