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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by John Green

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My own Ph.D. has been gathering dust in a university library for over 10 years and I haven’t had a need to have it published. It’s a question of what you want from it. If you have no academic ambitions and aren’t worried about royalties (which are usually miniscule even from an established scholarly press) I would take it a bit more seriously and not dismiss it as an option. Basically, it would be a case of your seeing it in print and you listed as an author. This VDM will do for you, but do NOT expect anything more and be aware that you might be able to get a better deal from the other presses, depending on whether they accept your manuscript or not. That’s about the gist of it.


Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Ochuko Tonukari

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To my mind, not all recently established journals are predatory going by the term. But i simply think this very one is. It is rather sad and astonishing when a publisher commits too many grammatical blunders in its website and in the mails it send to scientists. This appears to be the case with Horizon Research Publishing Corporation.

Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Zainul Abedin

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I feel frustrated to see that the work and achievements of researchers and scientists are being robbed of by the predators.

Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by mon.

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you don’t really need to subscribe to get their spam and a simple “no, thank you” doesn’t work in most of the cases. Plus they use different emails

Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by mon.

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Even if you have no academic ambitions (but then, what’s the point to publish your thesis?) if you really want ot see it published as a book, why not just look for a local printer?

Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by mon.

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Nowadays the thesis don’t gather dust, in most cases they’re available from the libraries’ websites.

Comment on Appeals by T Singh

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Dear Dr. Beall

Thanks a lot for your reply
You are correct that link is dead and I also informed you earlier about it.
To the best of my knowledge the webpage was created on using the free server space of f110mb.com just to enhance the visibility of the journal to the academic community. As a result some back issues were made available for free access on the said website.

Since the journal does not follow the open access policy, no further attempt was made to create new webpage. Further, the reason for using free space was the lack of financial support as the journal printing cost itself is largely met by the publisher and partially from the mandatory reprint charge received from the authors. As I mentioned earlier, the larger potion of the nominal reprint cost (Rs. 1000/) is spent in sending the 10 copies of the reprint and one copy of the journal to each author.

Thus, at present there is no website/webpage of this journal and the earlier one is not functional.

I think that since this journal is not open-access journal, it may be removed from your list if you consider so. Further, if you want to review the hard copy of the journal then I may try to get the email address of the publisher/current editors.

I once again thank you for your readiness to re-review this journal to evaluate whether it meets the criteria of predatory journal.

best regards

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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Okay, I take your point and have removed the journal from the list.


Comment on The Onslaught of Questionable Open-Access Journals Persists Unabated by simonbatterbury

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Yeah but unfortunately sleazy publishers use it often. Not the fault of OJS.

Comment on Appeals by T Singh

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Dear Dr. Beall

Thanks a lot for taking my point and removing the “Indian Journal of Social Science Researches” from your list of predatory journals. I am falling short of words to express my sense of gratitude towards you.

This gesture shown by you is highly appreciable and is a strong evidence against the fake charges made by some publishers/journals that you bargain with them to remove the journals from the list.

This case is an example where you have removed a journal from the list on the request of a person who is not the publisher of the journal.

This is an open exchange between you and me regarding removal of the said journal and all the dialogues between us is open and available on this blog for all (including the critics of your pious and pro-academic mission and efforts).

I thank you once again for your positive gesture and removal of the said journal from the list.

Comment on Appeals by T Singh

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I forgot to mention in my earlier post that this is also an example where you have removed a journal from the list that is published from a developing country “India”.

Thanks a lot. I salute the gesture shown by you.

best regards

Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by vuse

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I dont agree with u.elmer press .and baishenideng journals are listed in pubmed central. Also these are new journals so have less papers reaching them.so peer review takes less time contrary to high impact journal where no. R much more; taking months for review . I FEEL authenticity issues should be left to proper governing body instead of individual.

Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by emperor

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Lying about your location as a journal to the scientists is as bad as lying about your job to women you get to know.
If you really are a great guy it shouldn’t matter, but the fact you lied about it will break your neck…understandably, as most likely you’re not a great guy.

Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by yurinahmad

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Why not to establish a Wikipedia-like scientific journal?

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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That publisher has been on my list for a long time. Please see my <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/03/19/about-the-asian-research-consortium/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> about it.

Comment on The Serials Crisis is Over. by Steve Hitchcock

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You make two assertions in your opening sentence: 1 there was a serials crisis, 2 this led to open access. Your selective quotes do not show either, so it is hard to justify your headline point on this evidence. What your quotes may show, however, is that the serials crisis was about journals pricing, and the Big Deal was a response to that. But the Big Deal is not open access, and the case for open access is not over.

Comment on The Serials Crisis is Over. by Ninth Level Ireland » Blog Archive » The Serials Crisis is Over

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[...] “I declare that the serials crisis, the event that gave birth to the open-access movement, is over. I base my declaration on my observations as an academic librarian and on the scholarly literature …” (more) [...]

Comment on The Serials Crisis is Over. by Pierre de Villiers

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The main case for open access is free access to public-funded research. The big deal does not solve that, and actually worsen the situation by consuming library budgets in favour of those big deal-publishers, excluding journals from smaller publishers. I also doubt the statement that the far-above-inflation in serial subscriptions came to an end. Is this supported by evidence?

Comment on The Serials Crisis is Over. by Jeffrey Beall

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Publishers add a lot of value to research after the research is completed, and the public does not pay for that. The public pays for the research process but not for the actual value adds that the publication process manages. These are two very different components of the research process.

Please see quotation number 4, which shows that libraries pay a lot less per journal title than they did in the past.

Comment on The Serials Crisis is Over. by drgunn

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“Most academics are clearly operating productively within the existing methods of scholarly communication”

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m hearing from all the researchers I know. No problems here. We’re good. Keep up the good work, publishers!

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