Comment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by billwilliams
This post (linked in the Terras piece) and its comments are also quite illuminating.
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[…] bibliotecari accademici perché pubblichino, al costo di $1.900 per articolo, su una nuova testata, scrive Jeffrey Beall che non l'ha ancora messo fra i predoni dell'open access. Ci manca poco,...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Nils
Two salient points of Dr Terras’ story: 1) The Editor in Chief published an article in his own journal and personally selected the sole reviewer. 2) Despite the fact that Dr Terras never signed any...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Nils
@billwilliams: do you mean this link? http://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/my-collapse-of-confidence-in-frontiers.html
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by billwilliams
>@billwilliams: do you mean this link? http://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/my-collapse-of-confidence-in-frontiers.html Thanks, Nils. Yes, I did mean that link – sorry, it got omitted in my post.
View ArticleComment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by MRamos (@NativeLibrarian)
I am a member of SALALM and I can’t agree with your statement, Mr. Trombatore. Some of us acquired print sciences materials while others do not based on our institutions’ research needs. Our vendors...
View ArticleComment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by...
[…] s'è appena comprato la partecipazione a una conferenza organizzata a Birmingham, UK, dallo spenna-polli Omics, in qualità di chief scientist dell'Immuno Biotech Ltd e di cliniche […]
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by OAguy
What Dr Terras failed to mention in her long blog post is the fact that the paper that she reviewed was not an empirical research article, but merely an extended form of an editorial statement wherein...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Max
Nils, what you said makes no sense. If the purpose of having reviewer is to show endorsement from the field then why stop at one? Isn’t it better to have “endorsement” from more reviewers like normal...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Hayder Fatlawi
Hello Mr.Beall … Please … Can you explain why you list European Journal of Scientific Research in your list and is that mean impact factor of it is fake ? Thanks...
View ArticleComment on Two OA Journals Share the Same Title and Each Claims the Other is...
Amphibian & Reptile Conservation continues to publish significant papers that advance our knowledge of amphibians and reptiles species worldwide: NEW MAJOR PAPER PUBLISHED ON THE CONSERVATION...
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Journal Publishes Review Article with Questionable CoI...
‘The Open Ornithology Journal’ is another journal of Bentham Open. Quite a few recent papers in this journal list “PATIENT’S CONSENT Declared none.” This is also the case for papers without information...
View ArticleComment on More Published Pseudo-Science from Chinese Publisher SCIRP by Onolay
Why shatter the image of SCIRP?? I mean, its just an open access journal…You can find both quality and non quality publications there. Maybe you should rather alert the proper authorities that some of...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Nils
Max, I’m sorry, but I am not able to follow you here. If an EiC publishes in his own journal, and the paper is not to be considered as an editorial or an opinion piece, the normal thing to do would...
View ArticleComment on Another Fleet Startup: JSciMed Central by D.B. Green
One of my coauthors picked a JSciMed journal as a target for a manuscript we wrote, based on some names she knew from an article in the journal. Having never heard the JSciMed, I’m glad I decided to do...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
It’s a fake journal that accepts pretty much everything submitted. It really has no connection with Europe; it is from Mauritius.
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by herr doktor bimler
Much unlike Amway, there is no financial incentive for topic editors, they do not get paid for recruiting authors. There are indeed financial incentives for Special Topic editors, in the form of a...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Max
Nils, I agree that my accusation of malicious review was way too harsh and I leave my sincerest apologies here for Dr. Terras should she read our comments. First of all I’m from a Scandinavian country...
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Journal Publishes Review Article with Questionable CoI...
” I am curious about opinions of native speakers of English about the level of English in this paper.” The first article is written poorly, but it is more read-able than some of the other stuff that...
View ArticleComment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Chem
I hope CrazyDomains, GoDaddy and Network Solutions take strict action on Austin Group (http://austinpublishinggroup.org/). Their action depend on the quantity and seriousness of complaints they...
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