Channel: Comments for Scholarly Open Access
Comment on Cosmic Journals by Jeffrey Beall
Hi, Gerald, no, I do not keep track of where the publishers on my lists are based. Many are dishonest and don’t state where they are really from.
View ArticleComment on Cosmic Journals by R.V.Krishnakumar
It is not correct to say there is bias. If I am a gangster, I am bad. Doesnt matter to which country I belong to. There are many originating from India which should be bothering scholars in India....
View ArticleComment on Four New, Really Bad Scholarly Open-Access Publishers by...
[...] an earlier blog post, I [...]
View ArticleComment on Cosmic Journals by Shawn
First, not all publishers start at the bottom. There are plenty of small start ups that produce quality material (Academic societies for example). Frankly Indian journals are frequently cited here is...
View ArticleComment on Copying Elsevier by Jan Velterop
An Indian journal! All the authors Indian! Even an Indian telephone number! Shouldn’t be allowed! And it doesn’t even reach the exalted levels of European or American journals, where you’ll never find...
View ArticleComment on Copying Elsevier by Jeffrey Beall
Jan, I think you ought to submit one of your papers to them. I am sure they will accept it.
View ArticleComment on List of Publishers by Open Access Week 2012 | Infectious Thoughts
[...] a nutshell, check out the fantastic Jeffrey Beall‘s blog which has a list of dubious publishers best [...]
View ArticleComment on About the Author by Open Access Week 2012 | Infectious Thoughts
[...] a nutshell, check out the fantastic Jeffrey Beall‘s blog which has a list of dubious publishers best [...]
View ArticleComment on Defining Platinum Open Access by Gratuité ou libre accès? Poser...
[...] a relayé la proposition d’une voie de platine (« platinum road »), déjà proposée par d’autres, qui se définit par une absence de paiement pour l’auteur comme pour le lecteur, charge...
View ArticleComment on New Open-Access Chemistry Journal with Some Problems by Peace Peter
You did not list enough Journals. For example: This journal has a problem: http://ijcsi.org/
View ArticleComment on And Now, a Proofreading Scam by Austin Rinehart
It’s just a nightmare, I never used such services if I didn’t sure about quality of them. Make sure to use proper services like http://www.papersconsulting.com for example.
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme by dzrlib
If nothing else, ‘open access’ publishing, by new and previously unknown publishers, is becoming increasingly creative.
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme by Ninth Level Ireland »...
[...] “We learned recently about a scholarly publisher that appears to be operating like a pyramid scheme. The publisher is Simplex Academic Publishers, based in Tiruchengodu, India. It publishes five...
View ArticleComment on Cosmic Journals by Gerald Dorey
The sites seem to have been taken down now: even worse luck for the poor authors who thought their work was published with perpetual access, but which now find it is stuck in a strange academic limbo...
View ArticleComment on And Now, a Proofreading Scam by Peter Matthews
Even when we know a service is genuine, it is best to start by asking the editor or company to edit a sample text. Of course, even the response to this can be faked (the company might employ an...
View ArticleComment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Rob...
I have very mixed feelings about that Dirty Western site. On the one hand it’s interesting to see how prevalent publishing in low-quality journals is but, on the other hand, some of it is, methinks, a...
View ArticleComment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Frank Lu
What has ISO got to do with quality control of journals? What is the international standard that we are talking about — ISO 9000?
View ArticleComment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Jeffrey Beall
They are completly abusing the ISO certification system to make themselves look legitimate.
View ArticleComment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Robert...
It might worth noting that faculty at Western Illinois University are not being tenured or promoted on the basis of the articles found in predatory publishers. While the DW “broke” this story four...
View ArticleComment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Rahim Khan, India
The fact is that there are a number of organizations that get you ISO certification in India for a fee. I guess these journals must have availed these kind of services. There is a lack of any...
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