Comments for Scholarly Open Access

I have IISTE included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here </a>(it's listed as International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE) (International Knowledge Sharing Platform)), and I think it is a low-quality and even dangerous publisher.

International Journal on Numerical and Analytical Methods in Engineering (IRENA)-Praise Worthy Prize

Perhaps a naive question, but can journal titles be trademarked, and can this kind of thing be addressed as a trademark infringement? http://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademark-infringement

While it is not possible to copyright a journal title, it is possible to file for a trademark on a journal title. When we had some patent training here at Western Illinois University, I asked about whether a journal title could be trademarked and was told that they can. Thus, the proper way to protect a journal title in the U.S. is to file for a trademark on the title. Of course, that just works in the U.S. and could be ignored by an operation in another country.

It is not a high-quality journal. In fact, it seems amateurish. It is not a good place to publish serious research.

There is a Sudhanshu Tiwari at the right location who’s published various papers on natural products, many through predatory journals from Hindawi and ScienceQ and IDOSI.
http://www.hindawi.com/84231827/

But he has published and continues to publish through the perfectly-legitimate “Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources” (was “Natural Product Radiance”), which may have inspired him to go into business, and inspired his journal’s title.

Dear Dr. Beal,
I need to known if http://www.21caf.org/march-17-18-2014-conference-at-harvard.html is a predatory conference.
Thanks for your kindly support.

Somebody’s making a lot of easy money by renting a conference hall at Harvard Medical School and then using the Harvard name to make it appear the conference is sponsored by the university. I recommend not wasting your money on this. Boston is extremely expensive (hotels, food). Find an authentic and specialized conference that matches your field. This has the characteristics of a “scamference.”

I understand there are dead links.
Sometimes the publishers return.
Also, using the links, one can visit the Wayback Machine and view the pages (and sometimes access lost papers) as they existed before the open-access publisher disappeared, as many do.

[…] to one blog post, the company who emailed me are “among the most annoying scholarly open-access […]

Reblogged this on <a href="https://philippehavinh.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2016/" rel="nofollow">Health Services Authors</a>.

It is a pity that the IJP which had attained a certain degree of popularity and a high scientific standard should go in for an unknown predatory publisher as “kowsar publications”. I had once published an article in that journal when it was still published by the TUMS, and ever since they are with kowsar, I am flooded with requests to submit a paper for publication, but I just ignore. In PUBMED the latest issue of the IJP was in Dec 2015, which means it is still being considered “scientifically sound”;
Jeff rightly once told me “PuBMED is not a measure of quality”

I think that there is a place for one more publisher in your list: International Academy of Business and Public Administration Discipline http://www.iabpad.com

It has 7 journals. Hagen, Nassar and Hassan are very busy people – they are Editor-in-Chief / Editor / Managing Editor for all seven journals.

This journal seems to me to be a fake entity. My PhD student just sent me a link to this:

http://www.ijsr.net/archive/v4i12/NOV151806.pdf

Which is a ripped off copy of our paper that we published at the 2014 International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM):

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7136695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7136695

So if you are wondering how they manage to get so many articles published, it’s easy, they just accept rip offs!

I assume, and I hope that Google Scholar filters out any citations that such blatantly stole articles might generate in the future, but I would also hope that any unsuspecting researchers coming across such articles understand that the publisher is suspect and that the article has been ripped off?

The apparent duplication is the fault of SCOPUS. They were evidently confused by the journal’s change of name, from NPR to IJNPR. You can consult the IJNPR index here —
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/54/browse-date?starts_with=2014&order=oldestfirst
— and there is no sign of a duplicated paper.

This publisher is out of scope for my work.

Reblogged this on <a href="https://busynurseresearch.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2016/" rel="nofollow">Busy Nurse Research</a> and commented: Scary to see how the numbers of predatory publishers and journals keep climbing. Huge thanks to Jeffrey Beall for compiling this list to keep us all up to date.