Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by PCMAN
I want to know why IAP is on your list. IAP said they are free of charge.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
It does not look fishy to me. I will not be adding this journal to my list.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
This (International Academy Publishing (IAP)) is one of many different imprints published out of a house in San Bernardino. They don’t charge fees at the beginning to get a mass of articles, then they...
View ArticleComment on Hindawi’s Scientific World Journal Loses its Impact Factor by Michel
Just to mention that The Scientific World Journal has been included in Thomson Reuter´s JCR since 2013
View ArticleComment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA...
What’s fundamentally wrong? A publishing scheme that caters for the need of authors to publish their stuff. There is an obvious conflict of interest when the journal has a monetary incentive to accept...
View ArticleComment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA...
Well, then you come to the fundamentals of whether open access publishing is ethical/right or not. That is off-topic in this particular blog post. This blog post was about special editions, and as far...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Adrian
Here is another example from my alma mater: http://www.nume.de/index.php/nume/issue/archive It is a legimitate journal as it is published by a university, but it is very poorly done I guess. They...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Riaan Stals
Is this blog post commentary on *predatory* open access journals, or is it veiled criticism of open access publication as a whole?
View ArticleComment on A New Open-Access Scholarly Publisher and an Old Scam by “Science...
[…] Parker. Oops. So I Googled SJP open access. The first hit was their site, but the second was this article. It describes the evidence that Science Journal Publication [sic] is a scam. They’re even […]
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Alex SL
Well, in my experience this is not necessarily a problem limited to open access journals. I have seen in the past sometimes very good papers by very highly regarded authors that appeared in journals I...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Low
It’s the unfortunate (or fortunate, depending on your point of view) of scholarly publishing … scientists generally want to publish in the most prestigious journal that will accept their work. The...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Roger Harris
Here is an example of an open-access journal that has neither floundered nor died, but is actually flourishing, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries...
View ArticleComment on I get complaints about Frontiers by Friday links: the culture of...
[…] and to have editors double as peer reviewers. Further troubling examples in the post and comments here. Yes, these are only anecdotes and I’m sure there are negative anecdotes about all […]
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Ken Lanfear
The sad thing about this “dead” journal is I couldn’t find any information about where the articles may be archived. Yes, they are on the apparently unmaintained website. But, how long can we count on...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Marco
The Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy survived only 6 volumes: http://www.ijvs.com/archive.html Published by John Wiley & Sons.
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Riaan Stals
In some strange way about which one can become conspiratorially inspired, your posted link to the anti-Elsevier pledge directly takes one into the heart of the beast, the home page of the RELX Group,...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Renan Birck Pinheiro
Type the URL on your browser, or Google for it. For some reason it doesn’t work.
View ArticleComment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA...
Evert, I agree that gold OA is ethically dubious per se. In this specific case, the editor, the authors and the publisher work in a closed loop from which the readership is excluded.
View ArticleComment on OMICS Group Aims to Trick Researchers with Copycat Journal Titles...
Just received a spam email from OMICS. Strange that they don’t even border to hide behind some less notorious names: http://omicsonline.org/chromatography-separation-techniques.php I thought they would...
View ArticleComment on Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Renan Birck Pinheiro
Neither on this one, it redirects somewhere else. It looks intentional. Copy/paste the URL.
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