Dear Mr Beall,
Here are some examples:
International journal of Pharm tech research (sphinx knowledge house) – It only charge 20 USD, and now is at Vol 5, so pretty new, but already listed in scopus.
BioChemistry: An Indian Journal (Trade Science) – It is not open access, and do not charge authors. Authors will get PDF of the article free. It has print issues, and it is now Vol 6, and not yet in scopus, but it can be listed in scopus some day, if it can attract articles from potential authors (I hope), the same way as another journal of trade science below.
BioTechnology: An Indian Journal (Trade Science). It is free, and author gets PDF of the article free, except if we want to get-5 reprints and manuscript containing issue, we have to pay 25 USD. It is now vol 7, and listed in scopus. The address is not present in the website, but there is an address in the copy right transfer form. Editorial Office : 126 Prasheel Park, SanjayRaj Farm House, Nr. Saurashtra University,Rajkot 360 005, Gujarat – INDIA. Fax : +91-281-3066669. So, I suppose that the journal is managed by some people of the university.
Asian Journal of Information Technology (Medwell Journal), now vol 11 and listed in scopus (it has online and print version) payment: no information, I suppose free, because there is subscription.
Current stem cell research and therapy (Bentham open). They asked 2200 USD if I am not mistaken, but we can opt for not to be in open access, and do not have to pay. It is also listed in scopus.
If they can be listed in scopus, they must be pretty good, aren’t they?
Therefore, to be fair, big and establish publishers that charge exorbitant fee should be listed as well, such as springer open, which charges authors US$ 3000/ EUR 2200, or some journals from Elsevier. Why can we not assume that the review process is looser, if we pay?
