Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by Jeff Shrager

This is great (from their faq): “We are a group of scholars from leading research institutions and universities with a vast experience in academic publishing process. … WE DO NOT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT OURSELVES ON THIS WEB SITE FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. FOR LEGAL INORMATION OUR SOLICITIORS CAN BE CONTACTED THROUGH E-MAIL PROVIDED ON THIS PAGE AND THEY WILL RESPOND TO ANY ENQUIRIES ON OUR BEHALF.” (upcase emphasis mine). I think that you could actually rate the quality of a journal just by putting their faq into a spell checker and counting the errors. This one has at least three: inormation, seperate, beleive, artice…and those are just the ones I noticed in skimming! (Not to mention grammatical errors!)