Comments for Scholarly Open Access

[…] But as a matter of principle I never respond to “academic spam”. Messages sent as bulk mailings to a broad group of potential authors are at best impolite, and at worst actively damage the reputation of the journal and its publisher — see point M on Jefffey Beall’s Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers. […]

This publisher Recent Science claim that they are funding 22 projects that ranges from $5,000 to $1 million and they welcome submission of research proposals (http://recentscience.org/research-funding/). Given the predatory nature of this publisher, I believe they are not going to fund any project, instead they will copy all these submission and apply funding elsewhere, assuming they are the original contributors.

Rather unrelated, but replying to your 5 page limit question: this is commonly found in computer science workshops of reasonable prominence (more normal is 2-3, as far as I know). These will only get one or two reviewers though. Many conferences similarly have a six page limit, although some more prominent ones go for 8 up to even 16 (>2 reviewers, or rarely, 2). Note that this is dual column format (standard IEEE/ACM templates); the equivalent in single column is usually about a factor of 1.7 more.

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What about Science Pubisher Group? What’s the criteria there?

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The International Journal of Modern Nursing — interesting. I didn’t realize there was anything other than modern nursing…LOL.

Regarding the length of the paper: my journal typically publishes papers that are 5-6 pages long (journal pages) but in manuscript form, that is 15-18 pages. So the question is: is the $150 fee based on the final format or for a manuscript? If the latter, everyone is going to be paying more than $150.

He might make a fortune off of #232.International Journal of Negative & Null Results. I have lab books full of data that could be written up and submitted…LOL

I think #344. International Journal of Unsolved Crimes would be more appropriate…

thanks Jeffrey for the information about criteria for determining predatory publishers.
I just notice something between these two journals: the Global Journals, Inc. (U.S. and the Global Research Journal. are they the same? why is it that when I open the Global Journals, Inc. (U.S.) as one of the lists of the predator Journals, what comes out is the Global Research Journal..

You included Global Journals Inc. as one of the predator journal. what will happen to the article I submitted to them which they accepted for publication, could I submit it to another publication now I know that according to you, Global Journal Inc is a predator publisher. thank you…

I recommend against this because scholarly communication works on the honor system. When you submit a paper to a journal, you are are implicitly stating that it is your own work and that it is original. It’s not fair to play such games with a publisher — even a questionable one.

There are some journals of Avestia like this (http://ijecs.avestia.com/board/) that do have an established editorial board. I did a search and found that the people on the editorial board are real, but do you think this editorial board have actually consented to be on that list?

Of course I could create real, original text this way too, but I understand your point. Fair enough. I suppose this also takes publishing a light document (like a workshop paper/technical report) under a pseudonym off the table, as this could also be considered as ‘gaming the system’.

Apparently their submission system is up. You can try submitting a test paper. Although I think they are real. The do seem to have an office in Ottawa, Canada and a phone number. Also, I contacted the editorial board members (randomly) and asked them if they have been put on the list with their notification and some replied mentioning that they have agreed to be on the list.
Not having an editorial board for some journals is understandable as the institution is a new institution.

Also, they seem to have published a few papers in some of their journals as a special issue:
http://ijtan.avestia.com/Volume1/Issue1.html
The papers seem to be in good shape. They do have a DOI and have been published in PDF and HTML.

Oh, also, their name can be found in CrossRef publishers list:
http://www.crossref.org/01company/06publishers.html#a

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