Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Marco
Sorry, don’t know where to submit a journal for you to consider, so I just place this here: http://www.ijpsbm.com/home I think this one fits just about all your criteria of a predatory OA journal...
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Recently, Retraction Watch mentioned the web site Journalguide: http://www.journalguide.com/ The site offers information on fees, indexing, etc. Since the site is quite new, the information is often...
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No, not by itself, in my opinion.
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Dear Claudia: Non-profit does not mean they do not make money. It is a tax code designation. PLoS has its financials on line as does most other publishers. Springer does not because it is a privately...
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Marco, Thank you -- I had not heard of this journal before. Now I have analyzed it and added to my list <a href="http://wp.me/P280Ch-J" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. In addition...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jioe Wallach
You may also want to check one called “Journal of Earth Science Research” Just got that one today, which automatically went straight into Spam.
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View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
There are several journals with very similar titles, but I think you probably mean <a href="http://www.bowenpublishing.com/jesr/http://" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this one</a>...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by bill
This may have been pointed out previously, but it is notable that Bowen and World Academic appear to be working from the same webpage template. Bowen: http://www.bowenpublishing.com/jesr/Publisher.aspx...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Thanks for catching that. I am starting to realize that many of the questionable OA publishers have multiple “brands” or imprints. But because they are so intransparent, it is hard to always know who...
View ArticleComment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Narad
Harvey, APCs and page charges are different things, in my opinion. Page charges generally are made by tight-budgeted, non-profit scholarly societies. Indeed. Having spent a great deal of time working...
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I disagree with Harvey Kane. The major attraction for authors to submit papers to commercial publishers was the lack of page charges.
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$100 per page plus $3K for the subscription seems like a very profitable endeavor. I was a VP at two non-profits and would have very much enjoyed having a journal that generated that kind of cash flow....
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I would look at more than just the profit part of the equation. OA is not a profitless endeavor regardless of who is the publisher – for profit or not for profit. I would think the most important part...
View ArticleComment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Narad
With only 500 subscribers, and I am sure you had more, that was a $1.5 million journal without page charges. And, apparently, magically without expenses. The only thing left to pare from that budget...
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Hi, Apologies if my first comment was not clear. I am really interested in if anyone has any data on the different models of OA. I would like to know what the breakdown of OA models are– Gold vs. free....
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I have analyzed this publisher. I did not find that it met the criteria for inclusion on my list, so I did not add it.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I don’t know. I am unable to access their website — it seems to be down. Not a good sign, if their website is broken.
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