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

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I observe the following problems:

1. Their “contact us” page does not provide a headquarters location
2. Several of the journals have the same EiC despite covering different subjects
3. My anti-virus software will not let me open this page on the publisher’s site: http://www.infonomics-society.org/IJCDSE/
4. On the individual journal pages, the publisher has table of contents pages, but there are no live links to the articles. However, I can find the articles by doing a Google search. Why aren’t the links live? See: http://www.infonomics-society.org/IJTIE/Contents%20Page%20Volume%201%20Issue%201.pdf
5. There are prominent spelling and grammatical errors.
6. I get errors saying some of the PDFs are “unreadable”
7. Some of the journals have missing issues, issues with very few articles, no articles, etc.
8. There is no mention of article processing fees.
9. Some of the articles contain plagiarism.
10. I don’t really think this vanity press qualifies as a “society”


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