This is what I was saying. On the other hand, if you have no career ambitions, which is my case, and can’t be bothered with the hassle of trying to find another publisher, I don’t see a problem. Related to this, I know for a fact (since I eventually had a book published by a respectable academic press myself) that if you want a Ph.D. thesis published, it will have to reworked. They don’t, in the social sciences, normally, publish a thesis as it was written originally, since they are looking to sell as many copies as they can. This reworking of the text, and adding more material (books are often longer than theses) will take time you might not have. Secondly, publishers these days are very selective. I did the research on potential publishers of my own reworked thesis and even then, my manuscript was initially rejected by over 10 academic presses. So getting published the established way is not as easy as some seem to think!
Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by John Green
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Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Richard M Magsino
Dear Dr. Beall,
Kindly check on the journal publications published here in the Philippines (IAMURE – International Association of Multidisciplinary Research). All signs of being a predatory publisher I think can be seen in this this publishing group. Thank you!
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Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Jeffrey Beall
I did do an analysis of this publisher in January of this year but didn’t find that it met the criteria for a predatory publisher. I agree it is sloppy.
I’d be interested to hear the reasons why you think it should be classified as predatory or questionable. Did I miss anything? Thank you.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I will investigate this. Can you tell me why you think it deserves to be included on my list? Thanks.
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Comment on New Term: MOAMJ = Multidisciplinary Open Access Mega Journal by Felipe G. Nievinski
One more: SpringerPlus — “accepts manuscripts from all disciplines of Science”.
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Elik Ui
I think if publisher wants to earn his bread n butter, what is wrong in it. Scholar community is wise enough. Once they shall find it predatory, they shall kick it out of arena. LOLZ
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Masood Raja
I am so gratified to see Academic Exchange Quarterly on this list. A few years ago, I had the misfortune of dealing with them and their tactics to charge money for simple and undesired changes to my paper were sad. When I pointed it out on my blog, they tried to pressure me into retracting my opinion. Never heard back from them after I suggested that I could make the entire record of our correspondence public.
Thank you so much for your great service to academic community. The link to this is no longer on my own blog, but can be found on one of my former co-editor’s blog: http://dynamicsubspace.net/2009/02/27/academic-exchange-quarterlys-publishing-scam/
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by SCOTT
Could you please create a list of reputable, ‘non -predatory’ journals? it appears a large percentage of OA journals are on your list.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
I recommend this list: <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html</a>
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Comment on Appeals by Amreen Khan
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
Can you please inform how a journal which is not open access is added on your list of scholarly open access journal . reply urgent
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
It’s completely false that all the publishers on my list are from developing countries. If your research is as bogus as your statements above, then I doubt that any of the larger publishers would want to publish it anyway.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
The intent of my list is to include OA publishers and OA standalone journals only. However, sometimes publishers change their models and it takes a while for me to catch up with that. Moreover, some publishers publish using the hybrid model, which includes both open-access and toll-access articles, including sometimes within the same journal.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by mon.
There is also a Spanish company that belongs to VDM, Editorial Académica española, they use the same methods: spam emails and promises of a quick publication of a thesis or conference proceedings as a book. They pay some very desperate people to search the web for possible victims. They contacted me once regarding one of my articles (it was about 7 pages long) in form of a book. I found it so funny that I replied… wrong! They kept sendig me “offers” for weeks till I blocked them.
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Comment on Appeals by Antonio Floriano
With due respect Librarian,
There are a few of them from developed as well, we are talking about your list’s majority here.
Plus, what is your opinion on the sponsored journals? For your reference : http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27383/title/Elsevier-published-6-fake-journals/
The community expects an over all analysis on the publishing business not limited to Open Access.
And as far as my research works are concerned, I do spend an ample amount of time on analyzing the journal before submitting the manuscript, so please do not raise questions on that!!
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Comment on Appeals by T Singh
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I was waiting for your reply to my earlier post regarding Indian Journal of Social Science Researches.
Would you please let us know why this journal appear in your list when it is not charging money for printing of articles except a very small amount to meet the charges to send 10 reprints and the copies of the journal to the concerned authors.Further, as I mentioned that it also does not meet any of the criteria (to the best of my knowledge) of predatory journal (as specified on your webpage).
Would you please accede to my earlier request to review this journal again and remove it from the list (if you find it so).
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
The link is dead (404). I have indicated that on my list. When this happens, I leave it on my list and re-analyze it when the link gets fixed. If you know that the journal has a new URL, can you please tell me what it is? Of if you have any other useful information about the journal, please let me know. Thanks.
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Comment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by Alien worlds galore – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it
[...] Hindawi – fondato da 2 studenti di fisica nel 1997 – ha un margine di profitto del 52% su un fatturato di $6,3 [...]
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
In your earlier mean comment you said, “I see that all the publisher’s are from developing countries,” and now you have changed your story. I can research anything I want to research and exclude anything I want. Others are covering the traditional publishers quite well and don’t need my analysis on them. I limit my work to OA scholarly publishers.
Who are you to say “The community expects an over all analysis on the publishing business not limited to Open Access” No one made you a representative of the community.
Who are you anyway? I found nothing by you in Google Scholar.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by John Green
The answer is simple – as you say, just block them. As a matter of fact, I have three different email accounts and on all of them, I have blocked the incoming emails of a number of people and organizations who were annoying me. That always takes care of the problem. Otherwise, there is an “unsubscribe” option at the bottom of some incoming emails to the same effect. End of problem.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by GV
Thank god I read this on the advice of my supervisor. I was about to upload my work to this publisher. Mine is a hard earned PhD. And I’ll not give it to them.
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