Thank you very much for taking the effort to catalog these kind of journals and publishers.
They have a new journal in their arsenal.
Signal Processing Research (SPR)
http://www.seipub.org/spr/
Comment on A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company by B. Sreedhar
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Comment on The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals by Eve Douglas
Dear Jaime,
So, strange you say it “paper”, however, it is not an academic paper but just a piece of questions.
Second, this is also strange that the you have published your work in a predatory journal published by Japanese based predatory publisher, and you are referring it in order to dishonor ISSN system.
This is so bad, and be remember ISSN is simply a serial number, no relation with quality. The quality indicator is the listing of journal in TR, Scopus etc, editorial board and journal review practices.
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Comment on New OA Publisher Boasts It’s the “Most Innovative Online Scientific Archive” by David Sullivan
Appear to be somehow connected to this Nigerian group:
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Comment on New OA Publisher Boasts It’s the “Most Innovative Online Scientific Archive” by Eve Douglas
Awfull
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Comment on The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
Dear Eve Douglas, I have tried, in vain, to identify who you might be. However, the web is full of Eve Douglas’, so perhaps some of your background would be useful so we, the academic community, can assess the bias in your criticism. Your criticism of my “paper” is well taken, although you either seem to be misguided about what the definition of a paper is, or about the scope of what a paper can contain. However, I can assure you that my “paper” has raised massive awareness among peers, and most of the responses have been extremely encouraging and supportive, making me wonder if indeed you are extremely biased or not. What you seem to fail to understand is that all agencies, including publishers, the ISSN, Thomson Reuters, and others, all of whom are associated with OA publishers, have to be more acountable for their responsibilities, that they have to be more transparent to the scientific community and that they have to answer the questions I asked, simply because their web-site and their structure is currently simply not taking any responsibility for dishing out hundreds of ISSN numbers to any predatory publisher that is born, in this case ORN. Predatory publishers abuse the ISSN system to give them some sort of credibility, but then, at least according to Mr. Tonugari, some countries seem to be able to “buy” their ISSN numbers, feeding into the rampant fraud within OA publishing. So, I simply asked Mr. Tonugari to prove his point and share the facts behind his claims. Is he referring to corruption in the Nigerian system, since he is, after all, Nigerian? My “paper” is still valid and the questions asked still require a transparent response from the ISSN, whether you like them or not. After all, the ISSN is supposed to be serving the academic community, so let it, otherwise stop trying to serve a useless service, as it will be interpreted as a disservice. On a final note, just to be absolutely sure, do you work for the ISSN or some other publishing agency?
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Comment on The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
Eve Douglas, do you work for the ISSN? You seem to be defending it so fervently. The ISSN purportedly claims to be serving the academic community, so let it be more transparent and respond to queries by the academic community. Failure to respond or silence simply feeds more distrust into the system. Regarding your criticisms of the “paper”, you seem to grossly misunderstand the scope, sensu lato, of what a paper is. I tried to track you on sciencedirect and PubMed, but I couldn’t find a single hot for your name, suggesting that you are either working for industry or for the ISSN. Identify who you are so we can assess your criticisms and bias within the context of the publishing world. Mr. Tonukari, who is in fact Nigerian and not Japanese, still needs to prove his claims, which, if true, will be a serious set-back for the academic and OA communities, I believe. Is Mr. Tonukari referring to Nigeria?
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Open Access and Its Enemies | jbrittholbrook
[…] other member of our panel was Jeffrey Beall, best known for Beall’s List of Predatory Open Access Publishers. Jeffrey talked about his list, including how and why it got started. That story is pretty simple: […]
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Comment on The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals by Ochuko Tonukari
Dear Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, I just finished reading your paper where you raised 62 questions about ISSN. I must confess that they are quite educative and revealing. However, regarding what I said about the ISSN, it is no joke. I like the fact that you were able to single me out as a Nigerian; yes indeed, I am. But I will like to come out here without minding whose horse is gored. Specifically, ISSN is not free in Nigeria. Whether you are applying for pre-publication or post-publication assignment in Nigeria, you have to apply with a certain amount of money. As a matter of fact, the officials issuing the ISSN in Nigeria are quite corrupt. They don’t need to see the material for which you are applying the ISSN. All they need is the money. You only get an ISSN free of charge when you know someone up there. This is also true of some other countries that I know. I am only mentioning the case of my country here so as not to appear bias. This was why I told Eve Douglas that there is no strong connection between ISSN and journal contact details? And as to whether Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva’s work is a paper or not, I think it falls into a kind of paper. I believe it takes a certain amount of work to come up with those set of intelligent questions. Forgive me though, but this is just my humble opinion.
I would have being Jeffrey Beall’s worst critic but I discovered somehow that there is nothing for which any sane person should really criticize the man. There is something about Beall’s presentation of facts that one cannot ignore. The high points in Beall’s critical blog lie in his unbiased approach to issues. He criticizes what he considers as predatory publishers irrespective of the country the publisher is from. I would like to take the neutrality and impartiality I see in this and run with it. Thank you Jeffrey Beall for having been the drum major who was able and ready to lead the scientific community to light.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Dr.Yalagouda
I was just trying to correspond with publisher for my book and by chance could see comments on the publisher by many and decided not to send to this publisher!!!
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Comment on The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals by Ochuko Tonukari
I wish to express the view that I am trained as a librarian. The claim I made about ISSN in Nigeria is very true. This morning, I had to even confirm from my colleague who said a single ISSN is sold for ₦10, 000 which is the equivalent of 70 dollars. For those who care to know, the guys who perpetrate this crime are staff of The National Library of Nigeria, Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. Like I said before now, I don’t want to mention the case of other countries I know for certain personal reasons.
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Comment on Did Dr. Krashen Commit Self-Plagiarism? by Alex L
In my opinion this example of self-plagiarism is not serious at all as it occurs in the introduction. The introduction for many of my papers are very similar as the purpose of the intro is to set the scene, provide the big picture – which rarely changes. I agree he could have paraphrased. But to be honest who cares. I wish I could just cut and paste my intro’s. What is important is whether what is written in the rest of the paper is novel – not recycling. Which appears to be so. Give the man a break. From what I read in the discussion he is retired. He deserves a medal for still contributing to for free.
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Comment on The “Open Research Network” Launches with 86 New OA Journals by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
Dear Ochuko Tonukari, I do believe that to apply for and receive an ISSN in many countries, developed and developing, is supposed not to cost any money. You seem to be extremely confident about the fraud in Nigeria regarding the buying and selling of ISSN numbers. If so, then contact me (it will be easy to find my e-mail). I would be interested in compiling your proof and publishing this proof as evidence of corruption, fraud and incompetence within the ISSN. Such information involves the public, involves the academic community, and should be archived forever for future generations of librarians and scientists to know that in the history of the ISSN, not all was well. It can be published as a “paper”, just to satisfy Ms. Douglas, who has yet to answer about her association with ISSN or with the academic community. Kindly note that I only wanted your confirmation regarding nationality because the family name Tonukari can also be Japanese (Tonugari), so I just wanted that confirmation! As a librarian, you will be able to appreciate the importance of archiving. This is now my No. 1 priority as part of Liberate Science, to start to formally archive and publish (for posterity) any and all possible evidence of fraud, at any level.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Dr. P. Majumdar
In another journal IJTAP published by Ascent they have computed the impact index for 2012 as no. of citations in 2012 (5)/ total no. of publications in 2012 (36) X 100 = 0.1388. Is it the correct method to compute the impact index ?
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Comment on Did Dr. Krashen Commit Self-Plagiarism? by Rens W. van der Heijden
If you use the same introduction twice, then clearly you have not made any advances. One of the core elements of an introduction is the contributions of the paper. Without new contributions, what is there to write about?
Of course, re-using individual sentences (describing the big picture, as you say) isn’t that problematic, but it is a clear sign that not a lot of effort went into writing the paper.
More subjectively stated: the introduction is the part of the paper that will get the most readers — shouldn’t that also be the highest writing quality?
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Comment on New OA Publisher Boasts It’s the “Most Innovative Online Scientific Archive” by R V Krishnakumar
Dear Dr.Beall,
I am a regular follower of your blogs here. While it is important to expose the predators, I think it would be equally good to write about genuines. Would not it throw clarity, for the readers, on how to distinguish between the good and the bad? I believe it will. Please follow this link http://www.iucrj.org, a new OA journal being introduced by International Union of Crystallography. If it fits all your criteria, may be suggested as a model OA publisher. And a few more genuines as examples would be of great benefit.
Thanks for the good work and I enjoyed the ‘billion dollar’ scare by the owner of OMICS. I think it is not a threat to you alone but to genuine scholars all around the world.
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Comment on Five Ways to Defeat Automated Plagiarism Detection by www.plagiarismdetect.com/
Yes, for somebody cheating is a way of life(((
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Dr. P. Majumdar
What about the journals published by International Centre of Culture Inventory (ICOCI) Singapore. Is it a scam ? It is not included in your list though. But it is not indexed anywhere. Also does not have impact index either.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
I will get to this as soon as I can — I am backed up at this time. Thanks.
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Comment on Did OMICS Publishing Group’s Owner, Srinubabu Gedela, Commit Plagiarism? by Is the OMICS Publishing Group going to sue Jeffrey Beall over his List? | archaeoinaction.info
[…] is more, no more than a couple of days ago, Beall wrote a new post on his blog about the OMICS Publishing Group, this time directly attacking the owner of the […]
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by How to select an Open Access journal? | openingscience.org
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