Comments for Scholarly Open Access

What do you think of International Journal of Clinical Cases and Investigations: http://ijcci.info

One more is waiting for your opinion: Journal of Automation and Control Engineering http://www.joace.org/

Hi AhmadI;
If you consider a big name as Elsevier to be predatory, i doubt if you will have any international publisher of any worth. Having a journal University-based ( especially in Africa) is no gurantee of quality; All of us know the interpersonal squables and pressure that comes up, when change of grade in our universities is imminent, coupled with the time factor to do reviewing. Not to talk of financing regular production. Probably it might be better to consider this issue on a case to case basis that generalize111

I think it’s negligent. It meets the criteria for inclusion in my list.
It’s also comical; it’s the only “quartely” [sic] I know of that publishes six issues per year.

I’ve added this journal to my list. Thank you for alerting me to it.

The top page lists an interesting set of reasons why scientists should publish there:
http://eesa-journal.com/en/editorial-2/

“ADVANTAGES OF OUR JOURNAL
Professionalism
Individual approach
Guarantees
Privacy
Ethical
Punctuality
Honesty
Economical
Ingenuity
Stability”

The one I loved the most was “Ingenuity”.

That’s what I got just now!!! Thank you every one for early warning!!!

“Hope you had a good start into 2016!

I would like to take the pleasure to write to you on behalf of EC Dental Science journal that aims to publish quality articles on any topic related to Dentistry & Oral Health. After having a glance at your eminent expertise, I am delighted to welcome your valuable article submission towards the upcoming issue (Volume 3 Issue 5) of EC Dental Science journal.

About EC Dental Science
Current Issue: Volume 3 Issue 5

EC Dental Science is also indexed in ICMJE & always ensures authors with Rapid, thorough double blinded peer review process (2-3 weeks) and Certificate for Best Article of the Issue.

I warmly welcome you to submit your eminent article (Research article/Review article/Case report etc.) on/ before February 20, 2016 for publication in Volume 3 Issue 6.

Please submit your article at
https://www.ecronicon.com/submission.php

I look forward to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,
Eliza Rosalind
Associate Managing Editor
EC Dental Science
Contact: +44-141-769 0009
E-mail: dental@ecronicon.com
Website: http://www.ecronicon.com

On this blog, I've written at least two <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/15/david-publishing-company-a-massive-spammer-from-china/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog posts</a> explaining David Publishing's weaknesses. Regarding, "IJCNIS.ORG," it's a sloppy and otherwise low-quality journal that is probably set up just as an place for faculty from one or two universities to get fast, easy, and quick publishing of their articles.

This journal is published by the Hyderabad, India-based publisher called JSciMed Central. This publisher is on my list and is dangerous. I recommend you decline the invitation.

They’ve now added a new policy to their homepage: “Papers with more than 20% of Plagiarism will REJECT.”

The papers themselves will reject? Reject what? Publication? Their authors? “You’re not my real dad! You stole me from Strudebaker et al!”

Hello Nihal,

I have published two papers in “Psyche: A Journal of Entomology”. I regret having done it, thus I recommend you publish elsewhere.

I went for them as old Psyche used to be a very good journal, and I saw reputed colleagues publishing on it. Moreover I was invited to publish on special issues, with no charge.
However I feel my papers were not valued there by anyone, and response from readers very limited as a reflex. They had no impact factor after having promised me to get one; they had no editor-in-chief to consult with. Even downloading (old)Psyche past issues is not easy from their website since searching is complicated.

There are other open-access options in entomology, in my opinion.

Oh, never mind, the 20% message is gone now.

Along with one of their papers which was retracted within 5 minutes of me e-mailing them evidence (if only other journals were so fast).

I would aim for Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine or Journal of Ethnobiology or Economic Botany.

Also, a recent victim. My eagerness to get my work published was the culprit of me not further investigating the website. As stated, looks professional. I received the acceptance email and the scheduled publication date (December 31, 2015) with applicable Vol. number. Well no publication and my emails for status have remained unanswered. Yes, I paid the fees. I was scammed.

What can be done to stop these people?

If you want to laugh …

International Journal on Spirituality and Organizational Leadership http://isol.asia/publications/

The fun per se is here: http://isol.asia/people/advisory-council/

[Probably they do not publish anymore, but it is possible to find people who promote themselves with the published articles.]

Can’t resist to point out that they claim Gold Open Access in their “About” pages, but have a copyright transfer form that places any and all rights in the hands of the publisher…

You are right! Below is the link. Is this a linguistics study? It was published in an OA engineering journal…………………..http://www.ijser.org/researchpaper%5CBARACK-OBAMA-IS-TAMIL-BASED-INDIAN.pdf

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