Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Is it possible to professionally write and distribute your research without the likes of Research Media? Isn’t this the value these businesses offer. Did you receive distribution statistics from Research Media?

[…] Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado in Denver, has developed his own blacklist of what he calls “predatory open-access journals.” He warns that their numbers are growing. […]

[…] Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado – Denver, has put together a useful list that is continually updated: “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.” It’s worth consulting when you see a CFP just to educate yourself on any possibilities – and to inquire further yourself if necessary. Remember to not necessarily search for the name of the journal, but for the publisher name. http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ […]

Interested in the distribution claims from International Innovation – has anyone been able to gain some evidence of where the magazine is distributed?

[…] Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers […]

I’d like to say that here in Iraqi univerdities a thesis supervisor has the right to publish one research paper taken from the thesis or the desseration he/she has supervised. What do you think of this regulation?

That journal is published by Sophia Publishing Group Inc., and this publisher is NOT on my list. I think this journal is okay, and it's nice to see a specialized journal like this. I think it's better to have a journal like this one than to have a journal title such as the <em>Journal of Plant Science Research</em>.

I would be interested to learn more about this.

Do the students cosign these papers?

[…] The publisher grew rapidly as did open access competitors and corrupt journals, listed in the Beall’s list, that exploit the open access pay model, as explained in my last […]

I read the above comments and I beg to disagree at certain points.I have published with them ,and my experience is quite different.There were reviews and then comments on the corrections,editing and then I got to publish the work!!I know two other people who have also published with them and are having the same experiences,I am very surprised to see the above comments!

This reminds me of a situation back in 1966, when someone actually stole a thesis, waiting to be bound, and used it as the basis for several articles published in Applied Optics.

I see that your 108-page thesis is selling for $60.21 on Amazon, here: http://amzn.com/3659515388
How many have been sold? How much do you make for each copy sold?

As long as the paper is not in the public domain, the student is offered co-authorship (and all contributors properly acknowledged), all authors substantially contributed both to the experiment and to the writing, and all authors agree with the final submitted version of the paper, then that should not be any problem at all.
If the thesis is public, I guess the journal should be informed of that circumstance during submission, but I don’t think a thesis would have to pose a problem if printed on a small scale.
I suppose, however, you mean that the supervisor is allowed to do as (s)he pleases with the results when the student has left the research group: that is definitely not acceptable.

I am adding this publisher to my list, thank you again.

[…] If you have research or a conference proposal, be careful who you send it to. Do your research first before submitting for publication. Be sure to check your list of your hopeful OA publishers with a librarian to make sure they are reputable. Or you can look to see if they are on a list of dubious OA publishers by visiting the link below. And of course, be sure to check back here at the UD libraries’ blog for more details about OA publishing news. http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers […]

even after this long time.. this article is really interesting. i have have visited the website of this group and they clear indicated that there are no processing fees required for some journals .

do you have any new information in regards to the ISRN? or even their latest impact factor if known..

thank you

Ambrose i am curious .. how did it end? was your paper published in this journal or not? before submission did they state that there were no publication fees? because what i am seeing on their web page is that some journals have no fees required and on the others they state the fee.

[…] But scholarly librarian Jeffrey Beall noticed some…patterns in the journal back in September: […]

I understand. Except that using retractions as a data point would be problematic, as few predatory journals have retraction policies. They either leave the plagiarism there for all the world to see, or if pressured, they simply remove it tacitly.

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