Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Do you mean <em>Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg</em>? This is a case of journal hijacking. Please see my list of hijacked journals <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

Not predatory.

It is not a predatory or questionable journal.

Big bravo to you Dr Beall. Pls I want to know whether International Journal of Public Administration and Management Research being published by Centre for Research in Management and Social Studies is predatory. Thank you Sir.

It’s an extremely low-quality publisher that all researchers should avoid.
Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

It’s a completely bogus “publisher.” I have added it to my list. Thank you for alerting me to it.

Neither of these is open-access. I generally limit my work to open-access journals and publishers.

I’ve just submitted the article, no copyright transfer. In fact, they’ve published my article before my final agreement. Can I use that argument to ask for removal?

This journal is published by a firm called Computer Science Journals that is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

This is not an open-access publisher. I haven’t analyzed it.

Yes, but they will probably now play games with you. They may demand money for the withdrawal. They are predators.

Do you think it is better to leave the article, do not pay for it and ignore any further e-mails? (won’t it have any legal issues?) or just demand the article withdrawn and pay for it, if its needed?

I don’t know; it’s difficult to advise what to do in this situation; they hold all the cards. You may want to consult an attorney.

https://www.scholars-press.com/
this is another one, please consider to add in your list.

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I think the point that mr. Beall was making is that it is *not* a good idea, because it gives the journal a strong incentive to accept low-quality papers.

I think the problem here is a lack of transparency. If the journal would be completely clear on the criteria for assigning a paper to the categories (based on the reviews), and would publish the reviews for each paper, it might work as an incentive to submit strong papers (although it still seems unethical to me to charge depending on quality). But now, it seems that the journal could just arbitrarily assign my paper to the “medium” or “low” category just because it needs some cash. Sure, if the review reports are all extremely positive that wouldn’t fly, but serious review reports rarely are so positive (at least in my field, “major revisions” is about the best possible outcome in the first round), and how do I know there even is a real review process?

This is a different type of company. It is not a publisher of scholarly journals. They spam and ask people to sign over copyright on their theses and dissertations, and then they try to sell them on Amazon and other places.

IJACSA has been accepted for indexing in the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), a new edition of Web of Science launching in 2015. and its not indexed in SCI or SCIE. If you are looking for journal indexed in SCI or SCIE, IJACSA is not the journal.

These guys are not only blackmailing many young and inexperienced researchers but also wasting a lot of resources that could be utilised properly.

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